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Jeffrey G. Lenhart serves as general counsel to numerous
closely held businesses and professional associations (including medical
and dental practices, accounting firms and architectural practices).
Mr. Lenhart has substantial experience in business
formation, health
care, succession
planning, and mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. His practice
also specializes in estate planning (with particular emphasis in
representing family-owned businesses) and employee
benefits, including creation of leveraged ESOPs. In all these areas,
Mr. Lenhart brings to bear substantial technical and practical experience
and expertise in federal, state and local taxation law.
Experience
- Served as lead counsel to nationally ranked poultry processor,
successfully negotiating the sale of its stock, preceded by the
spin-off of substantial non-core assets in a Zenz transaction.
- Facilitated multiple tax-free spin-offs of corporate divisions,
including obtaining private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue
Service.
- Negotiated and consummated numerous taxable and tax-free business
transactions on behalf of private business clients, recently including
the acquisition of a multi-state electronics enterprise and the
acquisition of a Canadian corporation.
- Successfully litigated a case of first impression regarding
application of state law non-discrimination standards to self-insured
health plans in US District Court and the US Court of Appeals.
- Negotiated the formation, restructuring and division of numerous
professional associations.
- Assisted philanthropic individuals in creating significant
Charitable Lead, Remainder and Dynasty Trusts to balance tax savings,
philanthropy and family asset stewardship.
- Assisted hundreds of families in developing estate and financial
plans as well as providing estate administration advice, including
estates involving augmented estate claims, pretermitted heirs and
significant and complex tax issues with the Internal Revenue Service.
- Successfully negotiated with the Appeals Division of the Internal
Revenue Service regarding the characterization of a substantial cattle
operation as a hobby loss.
- Negotiated joint ventures between medical practices and tax exempt
health care organizations.
Honors and Awards
- "Legal Elite," Virginia Business Magazine, 2001, 2002,
2005, 2006
- AV* Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell ®
- Named to Best Lawyers in America ®
, Corporate Law, 2006 - 2008
- "Super Lawyer," Virginia Super Lawyers Magazine, Business/Corporate
2007
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia
LL.M (Taxation), with distinction, 1994
- College of William and Mary, School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia
J.D., 1987
- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
A.B., 1984
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Shenandoah Valley Educational Public TV (WVPT Channel-51), Past
Chair
- Harrisonburg Rotary Club, Past President, 2001 - 2002
- Rockingham Memorial Hospital Foundation 1995 – 2003, Past Chair
- Virginia Bar Association Board of Governors - Taxation, 1999 –
2005
- VBA/VSB Joint Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice, Member
- American Health Lawyers Association, Member
- Harrisonburg-Rockingham Bar Association, President Elect 2007-2008
Published Works
- Author: "ERISA Preemption: The Effect of Stop-Loss Insurance on
Self-Insured Health Plans," 14 Virginia Tax Review 615, Winter, 19951
Jeffrey G. Lenhart
90 North Main Street, Suite 201
Harrisonburg, VA 22802
P.O. Box 1287
Harrisonburg, VA 22803
T: 540.437.3123 Harrisonburg
F: 540.437.3101
T: 434.220.6100 Charlottersville
email: Jeffrey G. Lenhart
Areas of Practice
Bar Admissions
- Virginia, 1987
- U.S. Tax Court, 1987
- West Virginia, 1995
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