Offit Kurman

Tax Law

Principal

Herbert R. Fineburg is a principal attorney and managing partner of the firm’s Philadelphia office. Herb is recognized as one of Philadelphia’s most respected business lawyers whose substantial knowledge of tax law provides clients with strategic and cost-saving benefits in connection with commercial transactions, taxation, wills, trusts and estates matters.

Known for his ability to resolve complicated matters effectively, Herb has assisted businesses and individuals with the organization of their finances, business and real estate affairs and the structure of their assets (i.e., in LLCs, partnerships, corporations, trusts, or joint ownership). He has substantial expertise in preparing buy-sell agreements for co-owners who are family members or unrelated business partners and has resolved shareholder and partner disputes and buy-outs.

In addition, to working on bank financings, business contracts and employment matters for his business clients, Herb also provides advice on business acquisitions and sales. Herb, who began his law career as a commercial litigator and bankruptcy lawyer, frequently provides litigation counsel and assistance to a wide range of firm clients. His articles have appeared in the American Bar Association, Tax Notes Journal, Pennsylvania CPA Journal, the Journal of S Corporation Taxation and The Legal Intelligencer, among other notable publications. Herb has also lectured to various business groups.  He is also a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of The Exit Planning Exchange (XPX), Philadelphia Chapter, an association of professionals dedicated to advising clients on business succession planning and M&A transactions.

Herb is the Philadelphia office's managing shareholder and was a member of the Board of Directors and other management committees at Offit Kurman. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Herb received his law degree from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, where he was a staff member of The Urban Lawyer, the law review journal on local government law published by The American Bar Association, and has a Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M) from the New York University School of Law, Graduate Division.

Philadelphia Bar Association, Member

Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member

Washington, D.C. Bar Association, Member

Missouri Bar Association, Member

American Bar Association, Taxation and Real Property & Probate Law section, Member

Exit Planning Exchange (XPX) Philadelphia, Board of Directors

New York University School of Law (LL.M.) - Taxation

University of Missouri School of Law (J.D.)

Washington University in St. Louis (B.S.) - The Olin School of Business -Business Administration