Founded in 2008, the firm’s four members have more than 95 years of collective experience practicing in the state of Florida. While each has specific areas of focus, they are united in their commitment to attentive service, practical advice and professional competencies.

Bruce Brashear, J.D.
Bruce Brashear grew up in Gainesville, graduating from Gainesville High School in 1970. He received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, and his J.D. from the University of Tulsa School Of Law in 1977, where he was Notes and Comments editor of the Tulsa Law Journal. Bruce has been practicing law in Gainesville for more than 30 years and is an active participant in the local business community.

He has extensive experience representing businesses from start-up through raising capital to sale or merger. Bruce’s practice includes significant commercial litigation; technology and licensing law; securities; and corporate transactional law.

Bruce founded Alachua Freenet, Inc., in 1994, and was selected, along with his wife Judy, as the Person of the Year for 1994 by The Gainesville Sun for his instrumental role in this. In addition, he founded Gainesville Area Innovation Network, Inc., to help start-up businesses. He has served on the advisory boards of Biotech Development, Inc. and Gainesville Technology Enterprise Center; been a board member of the 8th Judicial Circuit Bar Association; and chaired the City-County Cable Committee. Currently, Bruce is outside counsel for the board of directors for Santa Fe Community College and an adjunct professor at the Warrington Business School at the University of Florida, teaching entrepreneurship classes.

Prior to founding Brashear, Marsh, Kurdziel & McCarty, PL, Bruce was the senior shareholder in Brashear & Assoc., P.L., founded in 1991. From 1984 to 1991, he was a shareholder in Watson, Folds, Steadham, Christmann, Brashear, Tovkach & Walker.

bbrashear@nflalaw.com

Larry D. Marsh, J.D., LL.M.
Larry Marsh grew up in Gainesville, graduating from Eastside High School and then from the University of Florida with his undergraduate and law degrees. Larry has been practicing tax law in Florida for more than 25 years, since he graduated with his masters in tax law from the University of Florida in 1982, and has been board-certified in tax law by the Florida Bar since 1989.

Larry has extensive experience representing clients in buying and selling businesses as well as in organizing and forming corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. He also is experienced in the areas of qualified retirement plans and non-qualified deferred compensation. Larry is very familiar with the federal tax laws applying to tax-exempt organizations as well. He formed and was general counsel for the United Way Foundation of Volusia and Flagler Counties and the Daytona Beach Community Foundation.

Estate planning has long been a specialty of Larry’s practice. He has worked with many clients to minimize their families’ future estate tax liabilities, and through the use of tools such as wills, revocable trusts, charitable remainder trusts and irrevocable life insurance trusts. In particular, Larry’s practice has focused on estate planning for closely-held business owners, including business succession planning, buy-sell arrangements and the formation of family-limited partnerships and limited liability companies for estate and tax planning purposes, as well as for asset protection purposes.

Prior to founding Brashear, Marsh, Kurdziel & McCarty, PL, Larry was a partner with Cobb Cole in Daytona Beach from 1988 to 2004, and still maintains an of-counsel relationship with that firm. He was also of-counsel to Brashear & Assoc., P.L. from 2004 until Brashear, Marsh, Kurdziel & McCarty, PL was formed in 2008.

lmarsh@nflalaw.com

Rebekah M. Kurdziel, J.D., LL.M.
Rebekah Kurdziel was raised in Gainesville, attending Buchholz High School and the University of Florida for her undergraduate degree, before graduating magna cum laude from UF’s Levin College of Law. She also received her LL.M. in taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, graduating first in her class. Rebekah spent the 2002-2003 academic year at the University of Florida Levin College of Law as a visiting assistant professor.

Her practice focuses on business and corporate law, with an emphasis on federal tax law. Her practice experience includes both tax and operational consideration for businesses; the formation, ongoing management and disposition of businesses (including partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies); shareholder agreements and similar relationships; and structuring acquisitions and dispositions of business interests, including equity and asset interests.

Prior to founding Brashear, Marsh, Kurdziel & McCarty, PL, Rebekah was an associate with the Law Offices of Carla DeLoach Bryant, P.A. in Orlando, Florida.

rkrudziel@nflalaw.com

James H. “Mac” McCarty, Jr., J.D., MBA
Mac McCarty, a Florida native, has practiced law in Florida for nearly 30 years, 20 of which have been in Gainesville. He received his undergraduate and law degrees, as well as a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Florida. In 2009, Mac was board-certified by the Florida Bar in real estate law.

In addition to his legal practice, Mac has significant business experience, having served as a Director of Business Development for the medical software division of WebMD, with extensive experience in the sale and acquisition of private companies. At that time, WebMD was a public company with revenues approaching one billion dollars. He has been an AV rated lawyer—representing the highest rating in both legal ability and ethics—by the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory for over 20 years.

Mac’s broad-ranging practice experience includes extensive corporate transactional work, including the formation of companies; negotiation for purchase and sale of both stock and assets; and workouts for businesses in difficult economic situations. His practice also includes the representation of commercial banks—primarily for commercial lending and future site acquisition on behalf of the banks—and various commercial real estate transactions with associated land use planning, filings and appearances before governmental entities for approvals. He also serves as counsel for numerous condominium and homeowners’ associations. Earlier in his career, Mac was a board-certified workers’ compensation lawyer for 10 years while representing over 50 insurance companies and claims servicing agents defending workers’ compensation and employment law-related matters.

mmccarty@nflalaw.com