Stuart Duhl practices primarily in the areas of state and federal taxation, corporate transactions, business succession and estate planning (including trusts), and non-profit and tax exempt organizations.

Mr. Duhl serves as a business and legal counselor to his clients. He assists business owners with a variety of tax and corporate problems, and plays a major role in planning objectives for the future of their businesses. He also represents a number of family-owned businesses and assists them with succession planning and other family business issues. In the non-profit organization area, Mr. Duhl advises clients on obtaining tax-exempt status, and setting strategic planning goals to meet charitable objectives.

His business clients range in size from small, one or two person operations, to those with sales of over one hundred million dollars and include a variety of industries, including construction, real estate, multi-level sales, debt collection, retail furniture sales, commercial cleaning, moving, technology, and food brokerage.

He has also assisted companies with their business strategies in China as a former member of the executive committee of the China Alliance.

Mr. Duhl was recently listed in the 2005/2006 Best Lawyers in America directory. He is also an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University Law School in Chicago teaching courses in Federal Income Taxation and Corporate and Tax Ethics.

Representative Experience:

A sampling of Mr. Duhl’s noteworthy projects include:

• Assisting the owner of a midwestern home building company with his business succession plan, which resulted in the sale of stock to an ESOP, along with the development of a stock option plan for key executives.
  
• Creation of an independent board of directors for an ESOP company with offices in Illinois, California, Arizona, Florida and Nevada.
  
• Development of a complex deferred compensation plan for key employees of a large Chicago based company with offices in other states.
  
• Assisting in the formation of a not-for-profit entity to conduct educational programs related to grid computing, and representing the organization in obtaining tax-exempt status.
  
• Representing the individual owners of a financial services business in the sale of their shares to a large U.S. company.
  
• Assisting in the development of a trust financing device for a government laboratory to facilitate the development of a new research building.