Skip to content
Gallagher & Kennedy Logo
(602) 530-8000   Payment
  • Our Team
  • Practice Areas
  • About
    • Our Founding
    • Client Successes
    • Client Comments
    • Community
    • Professional Women’s Group
    • Locations
    • Global Reach
    • In Memoriam
    • Careers
  • News & Resources
  • Contact
  • Payment
  • Search

Wayne A. Smith
Shareholder

(602) 530-8081wayne.smith@gknet.com

Wayne’s areas of practice are federal and state income and estate taxation; real estate (including 1031 exchange and reverse exchange); partnership, corporation and limited liability company formation and compliance; business planning; estate planning; agricultural compliance with federal and state programs; and water law.

He began his legal career as associate counsel for the Department of Treasury, where he tried civil tax cases.

Please do not send an email or any communications containing confidential or sensitive information if you have not already retained our firm to represent you. Neither the transmission nor receipt of your information is considered a request for legal advice, securing legal services, or retaining a lawyer. Sending an email does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please accept these terms below to proceed.
Close Send Email
Wayne A. Smith

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Represented physicians in the formation and operation of surgery centers.
  • Represented vegetable and grape growers from Mexico in disputes with brokers/buyers in the United States; prepared agreements to meet PACA requirements.
  • Represented Arizona agricultural growers in compliance with USDA Farm Service Agency regulations.
  • Represented developers in structuring complex income tax planning to maximize benefits of capital gains tax.
  • Represented landowners in complex 1031 exchanges and reverse exchanges.
  • Represented clients in complex estate planning.
  • Represented investors in acquisitions of automobile dealerships, farms and cattle ranches, construction companies, development companies and agricultural processors.
  • Represented owners and investors in the development of apartments, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, retail shopping centers and industrial centers.
  • Represented owners in financing for acquisition of land for development or farming; for development and construction loans; for refinancing existing loans.
  • Represented clients as owners or tenants in complex commercial leases, or complex agricultural leases.

HONORS & AWARDS

  • AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
  • Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law, 2010-2025

News

  • Best Lawyers in America® 2025 Recognizes 51 Gallagher & Kennedy Attorneys - August 15, 2024
  • Gallagher & Kennedy Law Firm Scoops up Former Jennings Attorneys - September 1, 2023
  • Gallagher & Kennedy Welcomes Six Lateral Attorneys to the Firm, Growing its Business Transactions & Litigation Practices - August 28, 2023

Publications

  • The Agricultural Act of 2014: What the New Farm Bill Means for Farmers - February 24, 2014

PRACTICE AREAS

  • Agribusiness
  • Corporate & Business
  • Corporate Counsel
  • Estates & Trusts
  • Real Estate
  • Tax

Bar & Court Admissions

  • Arizona, 1972
  • New Mexico, 1969
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1972
  • U.S. Tax Court, 1969

Education

  • University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
    LL.M., Taxation, 1971
  • University of New Mexico School of Law
    J.D., 1969
  • New Mexico State University
    B.S., 1966

Contact G&K

 

Phoenix
2575 E Camelback Road,
Phoenix, AZ 85016

Phone: (602) 530-8000
Fax: (602) 530-8500
Santa Fe
1239 Paseo De Peralta,
Santa Fe, NM 87501

Phone: (505) 982-9523
Fax: (505) 983-8160
Gallagher & Kennedy logo
  • Our Team
  • Practice Areas
  • About
  • News & Resources
  • Client Comments
  • Careers
  • Payment
  • Contact
© Gallagher & Kennedy 2025. All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy