Professional Experience

Cal Rose’s corporate practice encompasses an extensive range of business-related legal matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate and secured transactions. Cal earned an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law and regularly advises clients on legal and tax issues relating to real estate transactions, corporate governance, private-equity transactions, executive compensation, securities and a wide range of other business-related matters. He also has extensive experience in advising individuals, 501(c)(3) corporations and other tax-exempt organizations in applying for, obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status.

Originally from Blytheville, Cal earned an LL.M. in taxation from New York University after graduating summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Cal’s more recent experience includes:

• Representing clients in tax-free and taxable corporate-reorganization transactions, including drafting merger agreements, stock purchase agreements, asset sale and purchase agreements and related ancillary documents and conducting due diligence.
• Representing entrepreneurs and start-ups in matters relating to entity formation, executive compensation, taxation and advising clients on potential exit transactions. In this context, he has significant experience in drafting operating agreements, stockholder agreements, phantom stock plans, employee stock plans, as well as various other corporate documents.
• Representing real estate clients in commercial real estate financing transactions, the formation of horizontal property regimes, commercial lease negotiations, real estate conveyances and advising on issues related to qualified opportunity zones and other state and federal tax incentives for real estate developers.

Cal graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he served as Articles Editor for the Arkansas Law Review. His article, “From LOL to Three Months in Jail: Examining the Validity and Constitutional Boundaries of the Arkansas Cyberbullying Act of 2011,” 65 Ark. Law Rev. 1001 (2012), was published in the Arkansas Law Review. Prior to law school, he attended Hendrix College, where he was a member of Hendrix’s NCAA basketball team.

Recognition

Cal was selected for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in Tax Law.

Cal currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Ozark Literacy Council and the NWA Chapter of EforAll (Entrepreneurship for All), and he teaches a course on business law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Cal is a graduate of Leadership Fayetteville and was chosen as a member of the 2017 Forty Under 40 class by the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal.

He is a member of the American, Arkansas, Benton County and Washington County Bar Associations.