Capital Gains Deferral After the OBBBA: Opportunity Zones 2.0, §1031, and Installment Sales for Clients Selling Businesses and Real Estate

Mr. Genders has been licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C. since 2002. His legal practice is conducted exclusively through Genders Law & Legacy PLLC, a Washington, D.C.–licensed federal law firm, and is limited to federal matters. He is an approved continuing legal education and continuing education provider with the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Florida Bar, and the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) — a multi-jurisdictional educator credential that reflects both the breadth of his subject-matter expertise and the trust placed in him by leading regulatory and professional bodies.

As the founder of Investment Counsel Exchange, Mr. Genders leads a national qualified intermediary platform built around disciplined workflows, institutional safeguards, and experienced coordination for both straightforward and highly complex transactions across jurisdictions. He is widely recognized within the industry for his ability to train and collaborate with a diverse professional audience — including financial professionals, investors, attorneys, CPAs, title agencies, developers, and national underwriters — and for his forward-looking work integrating next-generation settlement technology, investor tools, and modernized exchange architecture into the 1031 process. His platform is also positioned at the forefront of digital-asset and tokenized real-estate workflow licensing, an emerging frontier in real estate investment.

Mr. Genders is an active and sought-after educator and speaker on 1031 exchanges, DSTs, qualified intermediary best practices, fiduciary and settlement-process considerations, and multi-jurisdictional investment strategy. His approved status as a CLE/CE provider with the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Florida Bar, and the Florida DBPR gives him a national platform for delivering substantive training to attorneys, CPAs, title professionals, and financial advisors. He maintains and curates a vetted professional network — spanning certified tax advisors, financial wealth advisors, real estate brokers and agents, and jurisdiction-specific attorneys — enabling clients to connect with the right specialists for needs that fall outside ICE's educational and qualified intermediary services. Speaking engagements and educational inquiries are welcomed through Investment Counsel Exchange.

Over the course of a 25-plus-year career, Mr. Genders has built experience across national 1031 exchange platforms, multi-state real estate operations, digital-asset workflow development, and the design of investor-focused educational programs. His prior roles as an in-house corporate attorney, national exchange attorney, and title agency owner give him unusual fluency in both the legal and operational dimensions of real estate and tax-deferred transactions — from the drafting table to the closing table, and from day-to-day title workflow to cross-jurisdictional exchange coordination. Today, through Investment Counsel Exchange, he leads a practice focused on complex 1031 exchange workflows and qualified intermediary services, Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) education and coordination, multijurisdictional investment considerations, fiduciary and settlement-process insights, digital-asset and tokenized real estate workflow licensing, and qualified intermediary best practices and compliance awareness. Through Genders Law & Legacy PLLC, he separately provides federal legal services from Washington, D.C. Together, these complementary roles allow Mr. Genders to serve as both a trusted educator to the profession and a strategic guide to investors seeking to navigate the modern 1031 landscape with institutional-grade rigor.