Stephen M. Breitstone

Partner

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business & Real Estate Taxation, Corporate / Business, Private Wealth & Taxation, Real Estate, Tax Exempt Organizations, Trusts & Estates

Stephen M. Breitstone

Partner

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business & Real Estate Taxation, Corporate / Business, Private Wealth & Taxation, Real Estate, Tax Exempt Organizations, Trusts & Estates

Bio

Stephen M. Breitstone is Chair of the firm’s Private Wealth and Taxation Practice Group. His approach combines business planning and income, estate and gift tax planning with a special emphasis on real estate.  His clients include domestic and international real estate owners and developers, closely held businesses, public companies, private equity funds, trusts and estates, and charitable organizations.  His combination of skills as a transactional and income tax attorney and as an estate planner enables him to effectively advise clients on their individual needs and those of their businesses. 

He frequently serves as general counsel and financial and business advisor to several of his clients and has been an expert witness in litigation over Section 1031 exchange transactions.  He has been an adjunct professor, teaching Tax and Business Planning for Real Estate Transactions and Taxation of Partnerships at Cardozo Law School and is a Fellow of both the American College of Trusts and Estates Council (“ACTEC”) and the American College of Tax Council (“ACTC”).  He is currently a co-chair of ABA’s Sales, Exchange and Basis Committee (“SEB”) and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

He has presented papers at the NYU Institute on Federal Taxation, Practicing Law Institute, Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, Bloomberg BNA Tax Management, National Multi-Housing Conference, Jeremiah Long Section 1031 Conference, Federation of (1031) Exchange Accommodators, etc. 

His style of practice is personal, not institutional; and his clients’ goals and objectives are his priority.  He has been interviewed on tax and financial topics by local and national media, including CBS, ABC, Fox, Fox Business News, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg, among others.  Stephen also is a Member of the Member of the National Dance Institute Board and co-chair of its Finance Committee.

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Upcoming Events

Jun
22
2023
June 22, 2023 @ 12:00pm
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at ACTEC Summer Meeting
Meltzer Lippe Attorneys and ACTEC Fellows Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch will speak on “Trust Basis and Pr...

Past Events

Nov
9
2022
November 9, 2022 @ 1:30pm
Jerome M. Hesch and Stephen M. Breitstone to Participate in 48th Annual Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute
Jerome M. Hesch, Counsel to the firm’s Business & Real Estate Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Tax Exempt Organiza...
Nov
6
2022
November 6, 2022 @ 12:00am
Stephen M. Breitstone to Speak at November ACTEC Meeting
Stephen M. Breitstone, Chair of the firm’s Private Wealth and Taxation Practice Group will be a speaker at the Novemb...
Oct
27
2022
October 27, 2022 @ 12:00am
Stephen M. Breitstone to Speak at Jeremiah Long Memorial National Conference on Like-Kind Exchanges Under Section 1031 I.R.C.
Stephen M. Breitstone , Chair of the firm’s Private Wealth and Taxation Practice Group will speak at the Jeremiah Lon...
Oct
26
2022
October 26, 2022 @ 5:15pm
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch to Speak at NYU 81st Institute on Federal Taxation
Stephen M. Breitstone and Jerome M. Hesch will be speaking at the NYU 81st Institute on Federal Taxation in New York ...
Sep
13
2022
September 13, 2022 @ 9:00am
Stephen M. Breitstone to Speak at 53rd Annual Estate Planning Institute Presented by the Practising Law Institute (PLI)
Stephen M. Breitstone will present "Freeze Partnerships" at the 53rd Annual Estate Planning Institute Presented by th...

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