United States of America, Illinois, Chicago
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Profile
Mike Tuchman is a senior corporate, real estate and tax partner at Chicago law firm Levenfeld Pearlstein.
Main Areas of Practice
- Business restructuring
- Corporate and M&A
- Offshore companies, trusts and structures
- Real estate
- Taxation
Overview
Michael Tuchman is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group and leads the Taxation Service Group and the Exchange Service Group, concentrating in corporate mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate investment and joint ventures and Federal and international income taxation.
Michael began his practice in 1984, focusing on transactional and international taxation. He currently serves as special counsel to several prominent pension funds, foreign governments, real estate investment trusts and other institutional investors. He has written numerous articles and is a frequent speaker on a variety of tax topics, including tax-deferred real estate exchanges. Tuchman has been an adjunct professor in the graduate tax program at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He has also taught corporate taxation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Representing a broad range of manufacturing and service concerns, Michael is a trusted advisor to both privately owned and public companies and an experienced and pragmatic negotiator of business acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and ordinary commercial contracts. He has assisted clients in global business expansions, complex corporate restructurings and family succession planning.
Michael also represents real estate investors, banks, trust companies and other financial institutions. He is highly regarded for his skill in structuring complex tax-sensitive exchange transactions, including joint ventures, property like-kind exchanges and tenancy-in-common structures.
Michael's other areas of concentration include:
• Representing senior executives of public companies in employment and separation agreements, compensation planning and estate planning.
• Providing substantive non-consolidation and other specialized legal opinions to the securitized loan market.
• Michael serves as the firm's liaison to MSI, through which the firm has affiliate offices in New York, London and other major business centers.