Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

About this office:

High quality, timely and responsive legal service with an ongoing dedication to close, personal client attention has defined Hinckley, Allen & Snyder's practice for over a century.

We are a regional law firm with over 100 lawyers based in five full-service offices in Boston, Providence, and Concord, NH and Hartford and Madison, CT. Our experience and resources offer clients throughout New England, as well as nationally and internationally, a full range of legal services.

Clients include several of the region's most progressive financial service institutions; publicly held corporations and emerging businesses, both domestic and foreign; privately owned businesses and partnerships; a number of the nation's largest real estate developers and construction companies; major hospitals and health care providers; non-profit organizations; colleges; state and local governments and agencies; public utilities; and individuals.

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP today results from the combination of two well-known Providence based firms, Hinckley & Allen (founded in 1906) and Tobin & Silverstein (founded in 1917), the highly successful Boston firm of Snyder, Tepper & Comen (founded in 1947), and a significant group of lawyers from the respected Boston firm of Fine & Ambrogne.

Administrative Law, Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business Law, Construction, Corporate, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Energy, Environmental, Financial Services, Government Relations, Health Care, Immigration, Intellectual Property, International, Non-Profit, Labor, Litigation, Municipal Financing and Bonds, Patent, Personal Financial Planning, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Technology, White-Collar Crime.

Effects of Excess Benefit Transactions on Tax-Exempt Status
Katie A. Ahern, November 25, 2009
The Internal Revenue Code imposes an excise tax of up to 225% on certain “disqualified persons,” usually directors and officers, who benefit from a so-called excess benefit transaction with a tax-exempt organization. A disqualified person receives an excess benefit where he or she...

Taxation of Debt Cancellation and Modification
Katie A. Ahern, October 28, 2009
In the current economic environment, many borrowers struggle to make timely payments while other borrowers struggle to make any payments. Faced with the choice of receiving less than what is owed or none of what is owed, some lenders are renegotiating outstanding loans and granting lower interest...

2003 Tax Act Improves Bonus Depreciation Benefits for Business Aircraft Owners
Edward H. Kammerer, October 17, 2009
As a result of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, the rate at which owners of business aircraft could claim depreciation benefits was significantly accelerated. The available depreciation benefits of business aircraft ownership have been accelerated once again with the passage of...

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