Bruce H. Jurist

Bruce H. Jurist

Bruce H. Jurist practices in the areas of corporate, finance/commercial tax and health law, counseling clients regarding mergers and acquisitions, joint venture arrangements, ongoing business operations, capital accumulation transactions, financing transactions, real property acquisition transactions and leasing. Mr. Jurist's practice involves a significant amount of healthcare industry business work. In this area he has represented institutional pharmacy, skilled nursing, assisted living, medical supply, home health, disease management and hospital clients.

A member of the Maryland State and District of Columbia bar associations, Mr. Jurist is a 1983 graduate of Hofstra University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review and research editor for the International Property Investment Journal, and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., Taxation) and the University of Maryland (B.S., Business and Management).

Areas Of Practice

· Corporate Law

· Tax Law

· Finance/Commercial Law

· Health Law

Representative Matters

· Represent pharmacy, skilled nursing, assisted living, medical supply, home health, disease management and hospital clients.

· Represent manufacturing, computer software, technology, retail and financial clients in regard to transactional and operational business matters.

· Counsel clients regarding mergers and acquisitions, joint venture arrangements, ongoing business operations, capital accumulation transactions, financing transactions, real property acquisition transactions and leasing.

· Represent lease brokers and leasing companies in regard to municipal leasing transactions.

· Maryland counsel to various national mutual funds with respect to Maryland tax-exempt bond funds.

· Provide transactional and operational business and tax services to a broad range of clientele, including energy, healthcare, telecommunications and banking concerns.

· Represented energy companies in formation of joint venture vehicles for construction and operation of cogeneration projects and district heating and cooling projects as well as with respect to other energy outsourcing transactions.

· Represent healthcare companies in regard to sales and acquisitions of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and pharmacies.

· Represented healthcare companies in the financing and refinancing of real property and leasing of operating facilities.

· Represented telecommunications companies in their construction, installation, operation, financing and sales of fiber-optic cable systems and capacity.

· Represent bank subsidiaries and independent leasing companies in regard to municipal leasing transactions.

· Heavy concentration of tax-exempt debt financing transactions for 501(c)(3) entities, particularly hospitals.

· Represented REIT clients with respect to its transactions and ongoing operations.

· Represent clients with respect to business and financial transactions, including municipal bond financings, equipment and project financings, and corporate acquisitions.

· Represented power companies (including nuclear concerns) in regard to their leveraged lease financing of electric generating facilities.

· Structured one of the nation's first REMIC transactions.

· Counseled white collar criminals, including Wall Street insider traders, with respect to tax ramifications of their settlement and disgorgement payments.

· Represent clients in tax controversy proceedings before administrative agencies.

· Drafted comments to proposed Treasury Regulations and lobbied for legislative tax changes on behalf of clients before the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

· Drafted federal income tax regulations regarding incentive stock options, taxation of property received as compensation for services, backup withholding, tax accounting and taxation of insurance companies.

· Participated in legislative drafting sessions on Capital Hill with respect to the Tax Reform Acts of 1984 and 1986.

Professional Activities

· District of Columbia Bar Association

· Maryland State Bar Association

Experience

· Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2007-present

· Hodes, Pessin & Katz, P.A.
- Shareholder, 2002-2007

· Neighborcare, Inc.
- Assistant General Counsel (on a contract basis), 2004-2005

· Blank Rome LLP
- Partner, 2000-2002

· Ober, Kaler, A Professional Corporation
- Shareholder, 1997-2000

· Venable LLP
- Partner, 1993-1997
- Of Counsel, 1992
- Associate, 1988-1991

· Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon
- Associate, 1986-1988

· Internal Revenue Service
Office of Chief Counsel, Legislation and Regulations Division
- Attorney/Advisor, 1983-1986

Board Memberships

· PACT - Helping Children with Special Needs (Kennedy Krieger Institute Affiliate)
- Former Member, Board of Directors

· CollegeBound Foundation
- Former Board Member

Selected Speaking Engagements

· Contesting Your Property Real Property Tax Assessment, On Air - Business Connection, Maryland Public Television, - February 2007

· Mergers and Acquistions, AM-IQ Panel with SmartCEO, presented by ACG Maryland, November 2004