Stephen Owen practices in the Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., offices of the firm, where he serves as chair of the Tax Practice Group. He practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, business transactions, corporate and partnership tax planning, real estate tax planning, and business and estate planning for closely-held enterprises and their owners.

Mr. Owen represents a variety of publicly traded corporations and REITs, as well as many successful privately owned entities. He has written for various professional journals on a variety of tax and business topics, including extensive works on corporate, partnership, and real estate taxation and estate planning. He is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Real Estate Taxation, The Journal of Pass-Through Entities, and The Practical Tax Lawyer. He is a frequent speaker on tax and business topics at nationally recognized programs, including The NYU Institute on Federal Taxation, The Southern Federal Tax Institute, The NYU Real Estate Tax Institute, The New Jersey Tax Institute, The North Carolina Tax Institute, The Tennessee Tax Institute, The Kentucky Tax Institute, The William & Mary Tax Conference, The National Association of Real Estate Companies Tax Conference and The Texas Tax Institute.

Mr. Owen is a past chair of the Partnerships and LLCs Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation and is a past chair of the Section of Taxation of the Maryland State Bar Association.

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business recognizes Mr. Owen for his tax practice, noting that clients appreciate his "great wisdom and tax expertise.” He is listed in The Best Lawyers In America in the categories of tax law and corporate law and in Who's Who Legal: USA - Corporate Tax 2006. In 2006, Baltimore SmartCEO magazine named him one of Maryland's Legal Elite. In 2008, he was named a Maryland Super Lawyer.

ADMISSIONS

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• Virginia

Adhésions

• Partnerships and LLCs Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation
• American Law Institute
• Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
• National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
• Real Estate Roundtable

Séminaires

• Speaker, "Creative Tax Planning Using Disregarded Entities," NYU 64th Institute on Federal Taxation (November 2005)
• Speaker, "Choice of Entity in Deal Structures and Restructures: Disregarded Entities & More," Ninth Annual Conference on Real Estate Taxation (December 2004)
• Speaker, "Choice of Entity Including Disregarded Entities," NYU 63rd Institute on Federal Taxation (November 2004)
• Speaker, "Exit Strategies & Techniques for the Business Owner," William & Mary 50th Tax Conference (November 2004)
• Speaker, "Choice of Entity/Current Structures/Tax Planning," National Association of Real Estate Companies 2004 Annual Tax Conference (June 2004)
• Speaker, "Real Estate Entity Structuring and Restructuring in a Changing Tax Environment," Eighth Annual Conference on Real Estate Taxation (December 2003)
• Speaker, "Choice of Entity/Current Structures/Planning for Real Estate Ownership by L.L.C.s," Annual Conference of the National Association of Real Estate Companies (June 2003)
• Speaker, "Succession Planning, Exit Strategies and Creative Deal Structures," 2002 Chesapeake Tax Conference (October 2002)
• Speaker, "Structuring Succession Plans and Exit Strategies," Seventh Annual Federal Real Estate Tax Conference (December 2002)

Activités civiques et caritatives

• Board Member, Caves Valley Caddie Scholarship Foundation
• Board Member, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore