Richard A. Leavy

Richard’s experience includes the representation of:

• Investment banks in connection with securities and commodities transactions; physical asset ownership and investment; principal investment in portfolio companies and investment partnerships; contractual relations with counterparties, vendors and clients; leveraged leasing transactions; and broker-dealer operations.
• Developers, lenders, and tax equity investors in renewable energy, oil and gas production and transportation, electric power generation, and infrastructure project development, ownership, and disposition.
• Oil and gas fired power-plant owners in their purchases of fuel, sales of electricity, and operations optimization.
• Developers, lenders, and tax equity investors in multifamily residential, commercial, and industrial real estate development.
• Commercial banks and other lenders in connection with tax and equity project finance, securitized lending, delinquent loan restructuring, and loan foreclosures.
• Medical device, pharmaceutical, software, semiconductor, and financial technology companies in connection with technology and patent transfers, acquisitions and product taxability issues.
• Real estate investors, lenders, owners and developers in planning property acquisition, ownership, syndication, development, recapitalization and disposition.
• Investment funds in all stages of planning, marketing, formation and operation.
• Manufacturers, wholesalers and mass market on-line, mail order and bricks-and-mortar retailers in connection with their day-to-day compliance and operations.
• Prospective recipients of discretionary and as-of-right state and local tax and economic development incentives and legacy recipients of incentives in the administration and renegotiation of their grant obligations.

Richard served as co-adjunct member of the faculty at the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey (1997–2005) where he taught courses on the federal income taxation of corporations and shareholders and state and local taxation and has been an adjunct instructor in the graduate tax program at the Sy Syms School of Business of Yeshiva University (2021 to present).