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Practice Areas - Robert S. Ocko represents corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and individuals in the areas of corporate, business, commercial and residential real estate, state, federal and international tax law, estate planning and estate and trust administration. He has advised clients in numerous merger and acquisition transactions in both the business and commercial real estate areas. Mr. Ocko also represents financial institutions and private lenders in commercial and residential secured lending transactions. His work includes representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing agencies, as well as proceedings before the Surrogate's Courts of the State of New York.
Bar Activities and Publications - Mr. Ocko is a member of the Tax and Real Property Sections of the New York State and Westchester County Bar Associations. He is the co-author of: Federal Tax Deductions, published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont (1992); Passive Loss Rules, BNA Tax Practice Series (1989); and Recent Developments Under the Partnership Audit Rules, New York University Forty-Sixth Institute on Federal Taxation (1988).
Biography - After graduating with Honors from Franklin & Marshall College in 1979, Mr. Ocko attended Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1982 as a winner in the Farrar Estate Planning competition. Mr. Ocko received a Masters Degree in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1983. He then spent two years as a law clerk to the Honorable William M. Fay of the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C., where he worked with Judge Fay in writing over fifty decisions. After his clerkship, Mr. Ocko joined the tax department of Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith, in New York City, as an associate where he was primarily involved in corporate mergers and acquisition and commercial real estate transactions. In April, 1991, Mr. Ocko became counsel to Quinn & Suhr in White Plains, New York, where he remained until he formed the predecessor firm to Harrington, Ocko & Monk, in December, 1992.