With a background as a tax and business transactional lawyer, practicing both in Western Pennsylvania and South Florida, Jack J. Kessler provides counsel to high-net-worth families and closely held businesses, focusing on complex business transactions in the real estate industry as well as individual income tax and gift and estate tax planning. Jack J. Kessler is a member of Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney's Tax Section. Jack is co-managing shareholder of the firm's Aventura and Miami offices. The Aventura office was opened under Jack's direction in August 1990 and Jack continues to spend a significant amount of his professional work hours in Miami. Having joined the firm in 1983, Jack has had nearly twenty-five years of experience in representing high net worth families and their closely held businesses in a variety of business transactions and personal wealth planning matters. His business transactions focus on complex national and international real estate, real estate development and real estate finance matters with an emphasis on business tax planning. His real estate finance and capital markets experience includes the origination and restructuring of numerous secured and unsecured, construction and development, syndicated, mezzanine, high yield, hybrid debt/equity and preferred equity facilities. He has had extensive experience with high end retail, office, hotel, luxury residential, golf course resort and gaming properties. Representative transactions have ranged from $40 million to $4.0 billion. Jack's personal wealth tax planning practice involves income, gift and estate tax planning and asset protection planning for high net worth individuals and their families. Among Jack's clients is the Soffer family of Miami, Florida, owner of Turnberry Associates and Fontainebleau Resorts, whose real estate developments include high profile development projects and properties in Florida, Western Pennsylvania, Las Vegas and multiple other national and international locations. Prior to joining the firm in 1983, Jack worked for five years for Coopers and Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse/Coopers) practicing in a variety of federal and state tax areas including individual, corporate, partnership and international tax. Jack has been a long time trustee of the Western Pennsylvania Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and, with his wife Ellen, supports numerous Western Pennsylvania charitable organizations. In 2005, Jack was named among the Most Effective Lawyers by the Daily Business Review, selected from nominations received from attorneys and law firms in practice across South Florida. Publications & Speeches Pittsburgh Attorney Jack Kessler Quoted on Foreign Investments in U.S. Real Estate in Developer Magazine
December 1, 2008 Civic & Charitable Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America, Board of Trustees Affiliations Allegheny County Bar Association Tax Section, Pennsylvania Bar Association Tax Section, Florida Bar American Bar Association American Arbitration Association (Also at Aventura and Miami Offices) | 
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