Stewart M. Weintraub to Co-Present PA Tax Planning Program

    PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 28, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Stewart M. Weintraub, a shareholder in the Philadelphia office of and national state and local tax (SALT) practice chair for business law firm Chamberlain Hrdlicka, will co-present a program as part of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants' (PICPA) 2016 Conference on Pennsylvania Taxes.

Weintraub will co-present a session entitled "Pennsylvania Tax Planning" during the day-long conference, which will be held at the Penn State Great Valley Conference Center in Malvern on July 27.

Joined by David Glad, director of Grant Thornton LLP's state and local tax practice, Weintraub's session will discuss due diligence required for mergers and acquisitions, tax planning relating to selling real estate, and common practices in inheritance and estate taxes. The full-day conference, which begins at 7:45 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m., has applied for 6.5 substantive CLE credits.

Weintraub has focused his practice upon state and local taxation for more than 40 years. From audits through trials and appeals to the appellate courts, Weintraub represents clients in all aspects of state and local tax compliance and litigation. His practice also includes helping clients plan and structure transactions so that all state and local tax obligations are minimized.

Weintraub began his career with the City of Philadelphia Law Department where he rose to be chief of tax litigation and where he served as chief counsel of former Mayor William Green's Tax Reform Commission. In 2003, Weintraub was appointed to serve as a member of a new voter-approved Tax Reform Commission. He also has held leadership positions for the American Bar Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association and has chaired or co-chaired the state and local tax committee for the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce since 1983. Now in private practice, Weintraub has been a shareholder at Chamberlain Hrdlicka since 2010.

About Chamberlain Hrdlicka - Chamberlain Hrdlicka is a diversified business law firm with offices in Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia and San Antonio. The firm represents both public and private companies as well as individuals and family-owned businesses across the nation in a wide variety of practice areas, including commercial and business litigation, tax planning and tax controversy, corporate, securities and finance, employment law and employee benefits, energy law, estate planning and administration, intellectual property, international and immigration law, and real estate and construction law.

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