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Stephen L. Owen

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stephen.owen@dlapiper.com

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6225 Smith Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21209-3600
United States
T: +1 410 580 4230 F: +1 410 580 3230

500 Eighth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
United States
T: +1 202 799 4192 F: +1 410 580 3230

Stephen Owen practices in DLA Piper's Baltimore and Washington, DC, offices, focusing 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 and The Journal of Pass-Through Entities. 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 he "is praised by clients for his 'exceptional performance,'" that clients appreciate his "great wisdom and tax expertise" and that he is "admired for his expertise in M&A, joint ventures, partnership and real estate tax planning." He is listed in The Best Lawyers In America in the categories of tax law and corporate law, Baltimore SmartCEO magazine named him one of Maryland's Legal Elite. He is also listed as a Maryland Superlawyer. Mr. Owen was recognized by the Washington Business Journal as one of the "2009 Top Washington Lawyers."

Admissions

District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia

Memberships

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

Seminars

Speaker, "Partnership Interest Basis Issues Including Allocating Liabilities Among Partners," Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures, & Other Strategic Alliances 2012, Chicago, IL (May 2012)
Speaker, "Using Disregarded Entities in Tax Planning", ALI/ABA Conference on Partnerships, LLCs and LLPs, San Diego, CA (January 2012)
Speaker, "Structuring and Restructuring Real Estate Deals", Advanced Tax Institute, Baltimore, Maryland (November 2011)
Speaker, "Structuring and Restructuring Real Estate Deals", AICPA Federal Real Estate Tax Conference, Washington, DC (June 2011)
Speaker, "Structuring and Restructuring Real Estate Deals", National Association of Real Estate Companies 2011 Annual Tax Conference, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (June 2011)
Speaker, "Allocating Partnership Liabilities and Other Basis Issues," Tax Planning for Domestic and Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2011, a Practicing Law Institute Program, Chicago, IL (May 2011)
Speaker, "Structuring and Restructuring Real Estate Deals," National Association of Real Estate Companies, 2010 Annual Tax Conference, Boston, MA (June 2010)
Speaker, "Allocating Partnership Liabilities and Other Basis Issues," Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2010, a Practicing Law Institute program, Chicago, IL (May 2010)
Speaker, "Structuring, Restructuring and Unwinding Real Estate Deals in a Recession," AICPA Federal Real Estate Tax Conference, Washington, DC (November 30, 2009)
Speaker, "Structuring, Restructuring and Unwinding Real Estate Deals in a Recession," Advanced Tax Institute, Baltimore (November 6, 2009)
Speaker, "Structuring, Restructuring and Unwinding Real Estate Deals in a Recession," National Association of Real Estate Companies Annual & Tax Conference, Lake Tahoe, California (June 22, 2009)
Speaker, "Allocating Partnership Liabilities and Other Basis Issues," Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2009, a Practicing Law Institute program, Chicago, Illinois (May 13, 2009)
Speaker,"Capital Gain [and Losses!] Planning for Real Estate," AICPA Federal Real Estate Conference, Washington, DC (December 2, 2008)
Panelist, "Advanced Like-Kind Exchange Issues"; "Planning for Real Estate in Corporations (including REITs)"; and "Exit Strategies, Succession Planning and Estate Planning for Real Estate Entrepreneurs," American Institute of Certified Public Accountants National Real Estate Conference, Phoenix (November 14, 2008)
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)