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Michael N. Gooen chairs the Trust and Estates Group at Lowenstein Sandler and is a member of the firm's Business Tax Counseling & Structuring practice. Recognized by New Jersey Super Lawyers and listed among The Best Lawyers in America (2009), his practice focuses on income and transfer tax planning for businesses and individuals.
Mr. Gooen's transactional practice encompasses the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, private financings, investment partnerships, and joint ventures. He has focused particularly on the United States tax consequences of cross-border transactions, including "outbound" investments by United States persons (corporate reorganizations, passive foreign investment company and controlled foreign corporation issues) and "inbound" investments by foreign persons (nexus, withholding and tax treaty issues).
Mr. Gooen's personal planning practice has included the following:
- Design and implementation of estate plan instruments
- Wills, revocable "living" trusts and irrevocable life insurance trusts
- Sophisticated gifting vehicles
- "Intentionally defective" grantor trusts
- Grantor retained annuity trusts
- Qualified personal residence trusts
- Charitable remainder and lead trusts
- Personal and business arrangements integral to family asset planning
- Family investment/management vehicles
- Shareholder/equityholder buy-sell agreements
- Charitable foundations
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Stanford Law School
(J.D., 1990),
Moot Court Board, 1989
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Harvard University
(B.A., 1987),
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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New Jersey
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New York
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- American Bar Association
- Taxation Section
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
- Jewish Community Foundation of MetroWest New Jersey
- Member, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee
- Chair, Grant Review Committee
- New Jersey Bar Association
- Co-editor, Tax Section Newsletter
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