Peter Blumeyer

Peter Blumeyer is an attorney based in Holland & Knight's Jacksonville office and a member of the firm's Private Wealth Services Group. He focuses his practice on estate planning and administration, the law of tax-exempt/nonprofit organizations and related litigation matters. He regularly represents individuals, families, charitable organizations and institutional fiduciaries locally and throughout the country concerning issues of both Florida and federal law. In doing so, he combines skills developed across practice areas to provide a broad array of services to his clients.

Planning and Administration. Mr. Blumeyer assists clients with a spectrum of estate, general tax and charitable planning, including related asset transfer advice. He is proficient in drafting wills, a wide variety of trusts and advance directives, including powers of attorney, designations of healthcare surrogate and living wills. Relatedly, he provides representation for fiduciaries and beneficiaries in the administration of trusts and estates, with experience in matters involving will and trust interpretation and modification. Mr. Blumeyer also advocates on behalf of nonprofit organizations as beneficiaries of matured trust and estate bequests.

Nonprofit/Tax-Exempt Organizations. Mr. Blumeyer devotes a substantial portion of his practice to matters concerning nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. Specifically, he provides counsel regarding the structuring, oversight and governance of tax-exempt entities. Related services include the creation and change of form of nonprofit entities, preparing applications for recognition of federal tax exemption, and addressing issues of regulatory and fiduciary compliance. Mr. Blumeyer has a strong working knowledge of the nuanced issues relevant to exempt organizations, including private benefit and inurement, excess benefit transactions, self-dealing, unrelated business taxable income, distribution-related requirements and fundraising.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution. Mr. Blumeyer is well-versed in the litigation of complex and high-stakes trust, estate and probate disputes as well as other fiduciary litigation in Florida and elsewhere around the country. He has experience with will and trust interpretation actions, contested probates and breach of fiduciary duty claims. He also represents charitable entities in both contested and uncontested judicial proceedings.

Previously, Mr. Blumeyer served as a law clerk to a district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, he was an intern at Jacksonville's Office of General Counsel and at the Office of the State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida. In law school, Mr. Blumeyer served as student body president and as a member of the Moot Court Board. As a lifelong member of the Jacksonville community, he is currently involved in leadership roles in a number of local organizations that focus on improving the quality of life and education in the area.