Press Release
Duane Morris' Growing New York Office Adds Corporate Partner Marc Kushner
NEW YORK, September 29, 2009—Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Marc A. Kushner has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Kushner will strengthen Duane Morris' Corporate Practice Group, as well as the firm's growing New York office. He joins Duane Morris from Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
Kushner focuses his practice on federal, state and local tax issues related to partnerships, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and other corporate transactions. He represents public and private companies, real estate companies, limited partnerships, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and tax-exempt organizations in a variety of tax issues, including negotiating and structuring complex transactions from a tax perspective. He has represented REIT clients in Internal Revenue Service audits as well as state and local tax audits.
Kushner began his career as a tax consultant at the national accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand (C&L) where, among other things, he advised clients on corporate and partnership tax and transactional matters including helping in the structuring of a number of corporate and partnership transactions. While at C&L, Kushner wrote the tax section for its national publication on partnership and corporate joint ventures.
Kushner has presented and written on a number of tax topics and issues including REIT organizational and operational requirements; Section 1031 like-kind exchange issues, including the use of tenancy in common arrangements for such exchanges; tax implications of debt workouts, foreclosures and bankruptcies; depreciation issues; unrelated business taxable income issues, Section 4958 intermediate sanctions and partnership operational considerations with respect to tax exempt organizations; taxation of payments received in litigations/settlements; and real estate and real estate transactional -related tax issues.
He is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he has served for a three-year term as a member of the committee on nonprofit organizations, and the New York State Bar Association.
Kushner earned his J.D., cum laude, from University at Buffalo School of Law in 1992, where he was an editor of the Buffalo Law Review. He earned his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1995. Kushner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Emory University in 1988 with a B.A. in economics and received the Omnicron Epsilon Delta Award for Economic Excellence.
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