Successfully led industry effort for the repeal of the Luxury Tax on automobiles

Successfully amended the Internal Revenue Code to allow for the transfer of payments for structured settlements

Successfully sought adoption of a favorable transition rule for the phase out of the completed cost method of accounting

Successfully sought adoption of various transition rules preventing immediate adverse impact of various changes to the Internal Revenue Code

Successfully secured a fair and balanced distribution of Medicare Wage Index for certain New Jersey counties adjacent to New York MSA.

Successfully created and authored legislation allowing for the single licensure of physicians thus allowing foreign medical graduates equal access to U.S. licensure

Successfully sought adoption of numerous state and local statues and ordinances insuring the sanctity of the "right to farm"

Successfully developed and implemented strategy to repeal decades-old aviation law, the "Wright Amendment," which restricted aviation client's operations.

Successfully drafted and negotiated $41.3 billion mass transit Title of the landmark TEA-21 legislation.

Successfully fought for inclusion of provision in appropriations legislation which granted to all airlines the right to challenge in court decisions made by the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration.

Successfully drafted and secured passage of national Amber Alert legislation.

Successfully secured more than $150 million since FY 2004 in Highway Program funding, money for dredging, Homeland Security Grants and disaster relief for Texas Port client.

Successfully sought adoption of favorable transition rule to clarify tax status of a low income housing tax credit bond offering

Successfully oversaw Federal government regulatory approval of transactions required for the offering of the largest low income housing tax credit bond in the United States

Successfully assisted in the creation and establishment of a National trade association for Institutional Markets participating in longevity transactions

Successfully represented a wholesale commercial bank in successfully negotiating with its federal banking regulator a reduction of a proposed formal enforcement action, a Cease & Desist Order, to a less onerous informal enforcement action, a Memorandum of Understanding.

Successfully represented an FDIC-insured financial institution in responding to an enforcement action by a federal regulator to develop a Reputation Risk Policy, including the creation of a Reputation Risk Analysis and the Procedures necessary to implement the institution's Reputation Risk Policy.

Drafted and successfully lobbied for passage in the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 the exception to the definition of "bank" in the Bank Holding Company Act that allowed industrial loan companies to be owned by commercial entities and not be regulated by the provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act.

Drafted statutory language and successfully lobbied for its inclusion in more than a dozen states that had introduced legislative proposals impacting the life settlement industry, including monitoring both the legislative and regulatory initiatives in all 50 states and providing strategic advice to the client regarding proposals for the benefit of the life settlement industry.

Successfully represented an FDIC-insured financial institution in defending a claim from a large bank holding company in its multi-million dollar claim against the client based on several transactions using the automated payments system. The resolution resulted in a multi-million settlement for the benefit of our client.

Succesfully assisted the client in understanding the applicability of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and providing strategic advice as to its impact on the client and affirmative actions the client can pursue under the provisions of the Act.