Alan H. Zuckerman

Alan H. Zuckerman is the immediate-past Managing Shareholder of the firm. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Tax Departments and has a business practice with a concentration in federal and state taxation, business and corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions (involving both public and privately held companies), estate planning and administration and healthcare law. Mr. Zuckerman is also a certified public accountant. 

As an attorney and certified public accountant, Mr. Zuckerman is a frequent lecturer on tax, corporate and healthcare-related topics, including:

• Buying and Selling a Privately Held Business
• Succession Planning for the Closely Held Business
• Asset Protection Planning for Physicians and Others
• Explanation of the Passive Activity Regulations
• Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts: Transfer Tax Benefits and Issues
• Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates
• Post-Mortem Tax Planning
• Subchapter S: The One Class of Stock Requirement
• Bankruptcy -- A General Overview and Related Tax Aspects
• Tax Aspects of Bankruptcy, Mortgage Foreclosure and Debt Restructuring
• Formation of Surgical and Endoscopy Centers in NJ
• Formation of Multi-Specialty and Multi-Practice Physician Groups
• Physicians’ Response to Managed Care and a Changing Health Care Environment
• Limited Liability Companies: Formation, Use and Tax Aspects
• Leveraging the Estate and Gift Tax Exemption

Mr. Zuckerman has authored a number of articles, including:

• Gift and Estate Tax Planning: The Shrinking Opportunity
• “Split Treatment of Legal Fees Often Taxing"
• “Unallocated Payments: Tax Treatment of Pendente Lite Support Orders”
• “Avoid Incriminating Clients in Tax Proceedings”
• “Doctors Getting Raw Deal with Newest NJ Tax”

• Led a team of multidisciplinary attorneys in the representation of a provider of Medicare benefit solutions in connection with its recapitalization project with a private equity firm. The complex transaction entailed significant M&A, asset protection, estate and income tax planning.
• Represented a veterinary practice in an asset sale to a private equity-backed, large veterinary rollup practice company, which also included lease and employment agreement aspects.
• Represented a closely-held manufacturing and distribution business and its principals in a stock sale to a private equity-backed strategic partner, which involved a restructuring of the company, equity rollover for the principals, employment agreements, and a real estate lease agreement. 
• Represented a closely-held online retailer in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a private equity firm, as well as the principals in connection with an equity rollover in the parent of buyer, and in employment agreements with the buyer.

• Represented a closely-held residential mortgage company in a multi-million dollar acquisition by a publicly-held bank, and represented the key principal of the mortgage company in connection with a new executive employment agreement with the Bank. The acquisition allows the mortgage company to maintain its current business model and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the bank, while strengthening the services offered to customers by both companies.

• Represented a pharmaceutical and biotech marketing firm in various legal and business matters throughout its life cycle, including corporate formation, start-up, and tax planning, acquisitions and complex financing for strategic growth, sale of controlling interest to private equity firm while retaining equity rollover and management control, and the eventual sale of the company to a publicly-held company.
• Represented a leading wholesale tire distributor in several states in the sale of its assets.
• Represented Stockton University in various matters related to the sale of the former Showboat Casino in Atlantic City
• Represented a company that was an internet seller of parts in a multi-million dollar sale to a private equity firm that was positioning this as part of a roll up of strategic businesses, while also representing the principal of the seller in connection with having an ongoing ownership interest in, and employment agreement with, the buyer.
• Represented the sellers of two separate specialized medical practices (dermatology and physical rehabilitation) to two different private equity firms, and represented the principal of each seller in having a continuing ownership interest in and an employment agreement with the buyer. These transactions entailed complex tax planning and healthcare regulatory compliance.
• Represented the owners of a large radiology medical practice in connection with the sale of its imaging centers to a competitor, and the physician owners with their continuing employment by the buying entity.
• Represented two separate medical practices (gastroenterology and primary care) in connection with the sale of their practices to hospitals, and the continued employment of the physician owners by the hospitals.
• Multimillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions, including private equity and strategic acquisitions 

• Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell
• Named a New Jersey "Super Lawyer," 2005 – 2011, 2013 – 2021, 2023, by Thomson Reuters, publishers of New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine
• Selected to Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Tax Law, 2024
• Leading Business Attorney - South Jersey Biz, 2022
• Distinguished Leaders Award Recipient, The Legal Intelligencer, 2020
• Named an Awesome Attorney, Health/Administrative Law, South Jersey Magazine, 2020
• Top Attorney List, SJ Magazine, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2022
• Named an Awesome Attorney, Tax Law, South Jersey Magazine, 2016
• Named an Awesome Attorney, Trusts and Estates Law, South Jersey Magazine, 2013 - 2015
• Listed as a 'Top Rated Lawyer' in Healthcare noted in Corporate Counsel magazine and The American Lawyer magazine, 2013
• Named to the "Legal Elite" list by SmartCEO Magazine, 2011

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• Atlantic County Bar Association
• Camden County Bar Association
• Past Chair, Taxation Committee
• Burlington County Regional Chamber of Commerce
• Past Chair, Board of Directors
• Past Member, Government Affairs and Finance Committees
• Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce
• Member, Board of Directors
• Member, Business Advocacy Committee
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Member, Tax Section, Health and Hospital Law Section, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
• New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants  
  • Director
• Pennsylvania Bar Association 

Active in the community, Mr. Zuckerman is a past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Burlington County Chamber of Commerce and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and the Business Advocacy Committee of the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he is a former member of the Board of Directors of Cadbury Continuing Care Retirement Community and the Finance Committee of Family Services of Burlington County.