Jeffrey Uffner, Chair of Stroock’s Tax Practice and Co-Chair of its Private Funds Group, represents prominent securities, real estate, distressed debt and infrastructure fund sponsors and global, national and regional private funds, in all aspects of domestic, foreign and cross-border tax planning. Jeffrey has extensive experience in a wide range of transactional and commercial tax matters, having structured highly complex, tax-efficient investment platforms for taxable and tax-exempt institutions, high net worth individuals and non-U.S. investors. He advises clients on the taxation of partnership entities; real estate investment trusts; qualified opportunity zone funds; cross-border acquisitions and investments; mergers and acquisitions; structured and derivative products; investment and energy tax credits; real estate investment and exchanges; and the investment activities of pension plans, tax-exempt organizations, venture capital funds and non-U.S. investors such as sovereign and sovereign wealth funds.
As an active member of the firm’s Financial Restructuring Group, Jeffrey has advised debtors’ and creditors’ committees, individual lending institutions and distressed debt funds in the tax aspects of prominent bankruptcy proceedings and workouts.
Jeffrey is regularly listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and has been nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States. He has also been recognized by Super Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal.
New York
U.S. Tax Court
LL.M., New York University School of Law, 1980; Tax
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1976
B.A., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1973
Jeffrey Uffner, Chair of Stroock’s Tax Practice and Co-Chair of its Private Funds Group, represents prominent securities, real estate, distressed debt and infrastructure fund sponsors and global, national and regional private funds, in all aspects of domestic, foreign and cross-border tax planning. Jeffrey has extensive experience in a wide range of transactional and commercial tax matters, having structured highly complex, tax-efficient investment platforms for taxable and tax-exempt institutions, high net worth individuals and non-U.S. investors. He advises clients on the taxation of partnership entities; real estate investment trusts; qualified opportunity zone funds; cross-border acquisitions and investments; mergers and acquisitions; structured and derivative products; investment and energy tax credits; real estate investment and exchanges; and the investment activities of pension plans, tax-exempt organizations, venture capital funds and non-U.S. investors such as sovereign and sovereign wealth funds.
As an active member of the firm’s Financial Restructuring Group, Jeffrey has advised debtors’ and creditors’ committees, individual lending institutions and distressed debt funds in the tax aspects of prominent bankruptcy proceedings and workouts.
Jeffrey is regularly listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and has been nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States. He has also been recognized by Super Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal.
New York
U.S. Tax Court
LL.M., New York University School of Law, 1980; Tax
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1976
B.A., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1973
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Financial Research Associates' The Private Investment Fund Tax Master Class
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