Peter Genz

is a partner in King & Spalding LLP's Tax Practice Group. His practice concentrates on corporate, partnership, and real estate tax matters, with particular emphasis on tax planning relating to public and private real estate investment trusts (REITs) and investments by tax-exempt organizations and non-U.S. investors in real estate.

Mr. Genz served as an attorney-advisor to Chief Judge Howard A. Dawson, Jr. of the United States Tax Court (1980-1982). He has published a number of articles and outlines on tax subjects and is a frequent speaker on REIT, corporate, partnership and international tax matters at various seminars and institutes, including the NAREIT Annual Law and Accounting Conference, ABA Tax Section Real Estate Committee panels, Southern Federal Tax Institute, Georgia Federal Tax Conference, National Partnership Tax Institute, Texas Federal Tax Institute, Kentucky Tax Institute, North Carolina Tax Institute, and the IRS/George Washington University Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Taxation. He also has served as a faculty member at the ALI-ABA Real Estate Tax Seminars.

A graduate of the University of Florida (B.S.B.A. 1975), Mr. Genz earned his law degree from the University of Florida Law School in 1980. He received a master's degree in taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1982. Mr. Genz is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts; the ABA Section of Taxation Subcommittee on Real Estate; and the ABA Section of Taxation Subcommittee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties. He chairs the REIT subcommittee of the Real Estate Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Federal Tax Institute.

Mr. Genz is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. He serves as Chair of the Planned Giving Committee and previously chaired the Resource Development Committee. He is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee and a past member of the Strategic Planning Advisory Board and Alexis de Tocqueville Society Cabinet. He also served on the Task Force of the Regional Commission on Homelessness dealing with the Addiction/Mental Health Continuum.

Mr. Genz serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross, Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter.