Jeffrey Marks

Jeffrey Marks is chairman of the Tax Group, and a member of the Corporate & Finance, Estate Planning, and Charitable Organizations Groups at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC in New York City. He has decades of experience advising public corporations, closely held businesses, and individuals in a variety of industries, including financial services, media, live entertainment and apparel.

Mr. Marks has special expertise in sophisticated tax planning and transactional matters, structuring and negotiating a broad range of organic business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and other divestitures such as spin-offs and like-kind exchanges, and advising clients on business formation issues, internal restructurings, joint ventures, investment partnerships and financing transactions, including credit facility arrangements, public and private equity and debt offerings and equity and debt tender and exchange offers.

Mr. Marks also regularly represents businesses and individuals in federal, state and local tax controversies; counsels businesses on day-to-day organizational and operational issues, including corporate governance matters, contractual arrangements, executive compensation issues, sensitive employee matters and similar issues; advises charitable organizations on tax and other legal issues relating to their formation and operation; and represents high net-worth individuals on personal income and estate and gift tax planning matters, charitable contributions and other matters.

Mr. Marks is a member of the American Bar Association Tax Section and the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, and serves on the latter's Committee on Tax-Exempt Entities.

Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Mr. Marks was a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and its predecessor firm in New York, Reavis & McGrath. He is admitted to practice in New York and in the United States Tax Court.