Richard A. Leavy

Richard’s experience includes the representation of:

• Investment banks in connection with securities and commodities transactions; physical asset ownership and investment; principal investment in portfolio companies and investment partnerships; contractual relations with counterparties, vendors and clients; leveraged leasing transactions; and broker-dealer operations.
• Medical device, medical supply and pharmaceutical companies in connection with technology and patent transfers, acquisitions and product taxability issues.
• Real estate investors, lenders, owners and developers in planning property acquisition, ownership, syndication, development, recapitalization and disposition.
• Investment funds in all stages of planning, marketing, formation and operation.
• Manufacturers, wholesalers and mass market on-line, mail order and bricks-and-mortar retailers in connection with their day-to-day compliance and operations.
• Prospective recipients of state and local tax and economic development incentives.

Richard served as co-adjunct member of the faculty at the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey (1997–2005) where he taught courses on the federal income taxation of corporations and shareholders and state and local taxation.