Boyd Lovelace
D. Boyd Lovelace is Chief
Taxation Officer of Bluescape
Energy Partners and Vice
Chairman, Holding Company
Operations of Bluescape
Resources Company. In this
capacity, Lovelace coordinates
all activities relating to tax
structuring, tax planning, tax
compliance, accounting, and
insurance. Lovelace will serve
as an in house tax expert for
Bluescape Energy Partners’
ongoing investing activities.
Prior to Bluescape, Lovelace was Vice
President Tax Operations for Energy
Future Holdings. At Energy Future
Holdings, Lovelace was active in tax
planning for special transactions such
as the structuring of the company’s new
generation building strategy and in the
further development of its lignite based
fleet. Successes included taking
advantage of previously unused tax basis,
settling outstanding IRS
audits in a cash efficient manner,
negotiating or
directing the property tax negotiations
that reduced the annual property tax
expense payments for the Luminant
business unit.
Prior to Energy Future Holdings,
Lovelace was a Senior Tax Advisor with
Entergy Services and was responsible for
tax planning and advice related to asset
acquisitions, dispositions, and
reorganizations and generated significant tax savings by using tax efficient
structuring strategies to defer tax
expense, improving the tax efficiency in
accumulating funds for nuclear
decommissioning liability, and revising and
providing technical support for purchase
price allocations. Before Entergy, as a
Tax Advisor for Shell Oil Company,
Lovelace planned for and directed
numerous tax advantaged structures
utilized in oil and gas acquisitions
yielding $100’s of million in NPV
savings. Prior to Shell Lovelace was a
partner with Arthur Andersen &
Company, a member of said firm’s Oil
& Gas Tax Specialty Team, and was
considered a firm wide expert in
partnership taxation strategy as well as
an expert in the tax treatment and
operation of master limited
partnerships.
Lovelace earned a Bachelor’s of Business
Administration from The University of
Texas at Austin and attended the McCombs
Graduate School of Business. He is a
member of the Texas Society of CPAs and
the Dallas Chapter of the TSCPA.
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