Overview

Jessica handles tax aspects of corporate acquisitions, dispositions, tax-free reorganizations, restructurings and business combinations, structuring entities and deals to minimize her clients’ tax exposure.

Both skillful and strategic, Jessica provides tax-efficient advice and solutions to businesses at every stage from entity formation through dissolution. She counsels clients on day-to-day tax minimization strategies in the context of transactions and business combinations, including partnerships, joint ventures, strategic alliances, business mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs and divestitures, as well as provides tax advice in venture capital transactions, corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations. 

Jessica also provides ongoing advice to charitable foundations and other not-for-profit organizations on securing and maintaining tax-exempt status, regulatory compliance, governance, tax-exempt. financing, and operational and transactional matters to enable them to focus on furthering their missions.

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Experience

Credentials

Education

Cleveland State University College of Law, 2000, J.D.
  • summa cum laude
  • Managing Editor, Law Review
  • Moot Court Member
Baldwin-Wallace College, 1997, B.A.

Bar & Court Admissions

Ohio

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  • Board of Directors, Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations
  • Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
  • Certified Public Accountant, Ohio (inactive)
  • Listed, Legal 500: City Elite, Tax, 2026
  • Listed, Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year,” Tax, 2026
  • Listed, Best Lawyers in America®, Tax, 2023-2026