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Stephen J. Legatzke

Principal

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Experience

  • Provided tax planning and structuring for family office and private equity fund in acquisition in $800 million real estate company and advertising firm. 
  • Negotiated and structured lending syndicates takeover and subsequent sale of debtor corporations. 
  • Acted as tax counsel for private equity firm’s acquisitions of software and tech companies, including through F Reorganizations and tax deferred partnership contribution and sale transactions. 
  • Advised on nonqualified deferred compensation top hat plans for private company.
  • Negotiated tax provisions for multi-jurisdictional structured finance transactions.

Credentials

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1992
  • University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1989

    – Political Science and Government, with highest honors

    – Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

  • Illinois

Professional Activities

  • American Bar Association Section of Taxation, Member