Areas of Practice

• Tax aspects of
  • mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, public and private financing transactions
  • private equity and venture capital investments
  • real estate transactions
  • health-care transactions and restructurings
  • cross-border investments and transactions
  • executive compensation including stock options and other equity-based compensation
  • corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, exempt organizations
• Business start-ups
• Bankruptcy and debt restructurings
• Tax controversies, including audits and appeals, ruling requests and collection matters
• Tax exempt organizations – formation and operations

Represent

• Publicly and privately owned corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships
• Private equity funds, venture capital funds and investors, and hedge funds
• Real estate developers and investors
• Foreign banks, funds and individual participants in U.S. transactions and investments
• Tax exempt, non-profit, charitable and grass roots organizations on a broad range of operational and transactional matters

Bar Admissions

• New York; New Jersey

Legal Career

• Joined Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP after being associated with Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood in New York City and Drinker Biddle & Reath and Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti in New Jersey

Author/Speaker

• Author, "Recipe for Tax-exempt Status," in Donna Dees Thomas, Million Mom March (Rodale, 2004) pp. 212-214. Jeff provided pro bono tax advice to the Million Mom March in connection with its formation, tax status and governance.

Professional Activities & Associations

• Member, Tax Sections of the New York State and American Bar Associations

Education

• J. D., cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center (1984), Executive Editor of The Tax Lawyer and author, "Debt-Equity Swaps," 37Tax Lawyer 677 (1984)
• B. A., State University of New York at Binghamton (1981)