About Alexander
Alex Parthemer, a member of Jones Foster’s Private Wealth, Wills, Trusts & Estates and Corporate & Tax teams, focuses his practice in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration, tax planning, business planning, and transactional corporate law.
Alex works with individual clients and families to develop personalized estate plans for asset protection and distribution while minimizing estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax impact. He also has significant experience in preparing estate and gift tax returns, trust and estate income tax returns, as well as partnership income and individual income tax returns.
In addition, Alex’s background in complex tax planning uniquely positions him to represent business owners and family offices in a wide range of corporate matters, including corporation, LLC, and LP entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, dissolutions, tax-free reorganizations, conversions, and annual filings. He has experience in guiding private foundations and public charities from the formation stage including the application for tax-exempt status (Form 1023) through name changes, director and/or trustee changes, administration issues, and related activities.
Alex is actively involved in The Florida Bar Tax Section, where he serves as Assistant Director of the Federal Tax Division. He is also a member of the Section’s Legislative and Regulations Committee, New Tax Lawyers Committee, Sponsorship Committee, and Transfer Tax Subcommittee of the Washington, D.C. Committee, where he co-authored peer-reviewed White Papers submitted to and presented before federal agencies and congressional delegations. In addition, Alex is active in the Real Property, Probate & Trust Law (RPPTL) Section, serving on the Principal & Income Committee and the Trust Law Committee, where he was appointed to a subcommittee reviewing a proposal to add an exoneration statute to the Florida Trust Code. He currently serves as co-chair of the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Estate/Probate Law CLE Committee. Alex also holds membership with the Palm Beach Tax Institute, East Coast Estate Planning Council, and various committees within the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association.
In addition to his professional involvement, Alex volunteers with the Philanthropy Tank as a member of its Student Grant Review Committee and Golf Committee. He also serves as a board member of PureHealth World, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring impoverished women and children globally have access to clean water, sustainable energy, nutritious food, and community spaces.
Alex is a Class VII graduate of the prestigious Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a rigorous education program designed to cultivate future leaders in trust and estate law. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in several industry publications, including on The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch list, as a Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star, and on Palm Beach Illustrated’s “Top Lawyers” list. Alex holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in Taxation from the Graduate Tax Program at the University of Florida Levin College of Law as well as an MBA from Stetson University School of Business Administration, where he graduated with academic honors.