Stephen M. Gelber
Honolulu, Hawaii
sgelber@gelberlawyers.com
Main Number: (808) 524-0155
Facsimile: (808) 531-6963
Practice Areas
Real Estate and Business Transactions
Federal and State Taxation
- Tax Planning
- Tax Litigation
- Tax Credit Transactions
Finance
Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer Planning
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Education
- Harvard College, A.B. 1966 (magna cum laude).
- Harvard Law School, J.D. 1969.
Fellowship
- Fulbright Fellow (1969 - 1970).
Government Service
- Judge Arnold Raum, United States Tax Court (1970 - 1972).
- United States Department of Justice, Tax Division (1973-1978).
Admissions
- District of Columbia (1970).
- State of California (1973).
- State of Hawaii (1978).
- United States Supreme Court.
- United States Court of Appeals for the 1st, 2nd, 7th, 9th, and 10th Circuits.
- United States Tax Court.
- United States Claims Court.
Awards and Honors
- Phi Beta Kappa.
- "AV" rating, Martindale-Hubbell.
- The Best Lawyers in America (1993-2007 editions).
- "Hawaii's A+ Attorneys"/"Hawaii's Best Lawyers," Honolulu Magazine (1993, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007).
Professional and Community Service
- Past Chairman, Tax Section, Hawaii State Bar Association.
- Parker School Trust Corporation (2003 - 2004).
Publications
- "Dealing With Troubled Real Estate" (1994 Hawaii Institute For Continuing Legal Education).
- "Tax Aspects of Investments," in Taxes: The Bottom Line (Hawaii Institute of Continuing Legal Education 1988).
- "Selected Tax Aspects of Insolvency Reorganizations and Non-Bankruptcy Work-Outs," in Current Issues in Bankruptcy Law (Professional Education Systems, Inc. 1984).
- "'Special Allocation' Problems in Partnership Taxation" (1983 HSCPA Annual Tax Conference).
- "The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980" (1981 HSCPA Annual Tax Conference).