Practice Focus
Stef Tucker represents a wide variety of clients, from the entrepreneur
and the professional, on the one hand, to publicly traded enterprises,
such as real estate investment trusts, on the other hand. His practice
encompasses the entire range of subjects from mergers and acquisitions,
to entity planning, structuring and formation, to asset protection and
preservation, to business transactions, to family business planning and
wealth preservation. In addition, Mr. Tucker has extensive experience
in Federal and state income, estate and gift taxation.
Education
J.D., University of Michigan, 1963
Order of the Coif
B.B.A., University of Michigan, 1960
Bar Admissions
District of Columbia
Client Benefits
In many respects, Mr. Tucker is a generalist, even in today's world of
specialists. His clients look to him to apply his breadth of experience
and general knowledge in arriving at solutions to a wide range of
business-oriented problems and issues and in structuring complex
business arrangements and transactions. They also seek his assistance
in connection with their personal financial affairs and wealth
preservation planning.
Significant Matters
Mr. Tucker has represented manufacturing, distribution and retail
companies in acquisitions and in being acquired by both United States
and foreign-based companies. This practice also encompasses workouts of
difficult financial asset structurings and repositionings, real estate
acquisitions, exchanges, financings and refinancings, estate planning
and structuring, the review of proposed Federal tax legislation and
comments on and testimony related to proposed income tax regulations,
family business planning and wealth preservation, and work with REITs
and other publicly traded enterprises.
Activities
Mr. Tucker served as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of
Taxation from 1998 to 1999, having previously served as Chair-Elect, as
its Vice-Chair/Committee Operations, as a member of its Council, and as
Chair of its Committees on Real Estate and Continuing Legal Education.
Moreover, he was an active member of the ABA Section of Taxation Task
Force on Tax System Restructuring, with a particular focus on real
estate. In addition, he is a member of the District of Columbia Bar
Division of Taxation, having previously served as a member of its
Steering Committee. Mr. Tucker is a member of the Board of Trustees of
Massachusetts School at Law at Andover, Massachusetts. He is also a
member of the Committee of Visitors of the University of Michigan Law
School. He is an active member of the American Law Institute, the
American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American College of Tax
Counsel. In addition, he is on the Advisory Boards of Real Estate Taxation and Practical Tax Strategies.
Publications/Speeches
Mr.
Tucker was a Professorial Lecturer at Law at George Washington
University Law Center from 1970 to 1990, and has been an Adjunct
Professor at Law at Georgetown University Law Center since 1990, in
both cases teaching Federal Taxation of Real Estate Transactions. He is
the author of Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions (West
Group, July 1989, with semi-annual supplements) and was the co-editor
of Real Estate Income Taxation/1982. Over the years, Mr. Tucker has
written a substantial number of articles on income and estate taxation
and business planning.
Mr. Tucker has lectured at
numerous tax programs, including the Maryland Advanced Tax Institute;
Hawaii Tax Institute; Southern Federal Tax Institute; Texas Tax
Institute; Tennessee Tax Institute; AICPA Real Estate Conference; and
the Practicing Law Institute Annual Real Estate Tax Forum. He was the
Chair or Co-Chair of the annual American Law Institute-American Bar
Association Program on Creative Tax Planning for Real Estate from 1975
through 1997 and continues as a lecturer at the Program.
Honors
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America - 1987 through 2007 for Real Estate Law, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates (Woodward/White Inc.)
Listed as one of the leading Real Estate lawyers in the United States in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
Named one of the Top 100 Attorneys by Worth magazine in December 2005
Named a Leading Lawyer in Real Estate law by the Legal Times in March 2003
Named Top Washington Lawyer in Tax Law by Washington Business Journal in 2004 | 
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