Jack Kearns' practice encompasses a wide variety of corporate and tax matters, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged leasing, corporate finance, business restructuring, project finance, tax, equity compensation, and employee benefit programs, including Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and Securities and Exchange Commission matters. Representative Matters · Represented a privately held food manufacturer and its shareholders in a "going public" merger of equals with a publicly traded company; · Represented developers, equity and debt participants in a significant number of lease financings for nonutility energy plant power producers and real estate infrastructure and transportation equipment (aircraft, railway cars and rail systems); · Represented the issuers in corporate finance matters and publicly-held debt transactions, as well as private placement transactions of debt and equity; · Numerous corporate acquisitions and dispositions, representing both buyers and sellers with transaction sizes ranging from $1.5 billion to under $1 million; · Emphasizes transactional tax planning and structuring while he frequently advises clients with respect to choice of entity, partnership and limited liability company matters, special allocations, corporate and debt reorganization and financial instrument taxation matters. · Structures a significant number of tax-advantaged transactions, utilizing multiple techniques, to enhance the after tax return to the participants; · Employs limited liability companies taxed as partnerships to achieve significant tax benefits for his clients and structures numerous tax deferral arrangements, utilizing like-kind exchanges, condemnations, corporate reorganizations, and partnership techniques; · Structures, designs, drafts and implements employee benefits plans, ESOP financings and equity-based compensation. Professional Affiliations Pennsylvania Bar Association New York Bar Association New Jersey Bar Association American Bar Association Articles/Speeches/Presentations · "The New Federal Tax Deduction for Manufacturing" Continuing Legal Education Seminar · "M&A, The Art of Doing Deals" Continuing Legal Education Seminar · "Choice of Equity" Continuing Legal Education Seminar · "Advanced LLC issues" Continuing Legal Education Seminar · "Negotiating and Drafting Acquisition Agreements," Continuing Legal Education Semina · Annual Lecture on Tax Issues in Mergers & Acquisitions Course in the MBA program at Carnegie Mellon University Quoted · "A U-Turn to Avoid Regulatory Roadblocks" quoted, The Legal Intelligencer, November 16, 2009. |