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Business & Corporate Law

• Structured and negotiated a five-year strategic alliance agreement between a multi-billion dollar bank and a major telecommunications vendor.
• Negotiated a highly favorable severance agreement for a senior executive of a major insurance company.
• Designed and implemented contract management systems for telecommunications, interior design and construction firms, resulting in increased efficiency and profitability for each company.
• Served as outside general counsel for an interior design and architecture firm.
• Structured and negotiated a highly favorable private practice arrangement for four academic physicians.
• Merged five physician practice groups to create the largest cardiology group in Maryland.
• Negotiated a long term employment contract for the Chief of Medicine of a major regional medical center Taxation
• Structured the acquisition of a commercial office building, utilizing multiple limited liability companies to minimize Structured the merger of multiple U.S. subsidiaries of a Japanese corporation in order to minimize state transfer and              property taxes.
• Negotiated the resolution of a federal tax controversy involving multiple corporations under a failed Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan of arrangement.
• Structured a tax-free reorganization for a California rocket company.
• Structured the reorganization of subsidiaries of a multi-state corporation in order to effectively use net operating losses.
• Negotiated numerous tax-free corporate reorganizations.

Intellectual Property

• Structured a joint venture consisting of a federal government agency, three corporations and a university for the   evelopment and commercialization of an ultrathin "smart card" utilizing fingerprint identification technology.
• Negotiated a license agreement between a university and a corporation, involving recombinant DNA technology.
• Assisted an entrepreneur in commercializing technology for television access to the Internet.
• Conducted preliminary patent, trademark and servicemark searches for a sports telecommunications technology, as             well as for a virtual marketing firm.

Real Estate

•  Negotiated the resolution of protracted construction company litigation involving a large housing development.
• Negotiated an option agreement for mineral rights.
• Negotiated the sale of a restaurant and multiplerelated properties.
• Negotiated an agreement of sale for a sports complex.
• Structured and documented a multi-party, multi-property transaction to meet regulatory guidelines while minimizing recordation, transfer, income and estate taxes.

Estate Planning

• Won a million dollar estate case in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals involving complex estate and trust issues.
• Provided comprehensive estate planning for a husband and wife, resulting in estate tax savings exceeding several million dollars.
• Helped an overwhelmed widow sell her home and find an affordable continuing care retirement community, assisting her in investing her funds for maximum income and minimum worry.