Frederick Widen

Business Succession Planning

Mergers & Acquisitions

Tax

Trusts & Estates

White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations

Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights

Business Law

Real Estate

Health Care Business Transactions

Health Care

Executive Compensation

Retail, Restaurant & Hospitality

Health Care & Regulated Industries

Fred has more than 40 years of experience representing businesses, real estate developers, private equity companies, and other clients in taxation, real estate, business, and succession matters. Fred has extensive experience in income, estate, gift, sales, and property tax, and criminal tax matters on the international, federal, state, and local levels. He also assists clients in structuring business acquisitions and dispositions, Section 1031 exchanges, and entity and assets transfers. Fred assists clients in preparing sophisticated business governance documents, including partnership, operating, joint venture, and shareholder agreements.

American College of Tax Counsel (Fellow); American Bar Association (Taxation Section; Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section; Member, S Corporation Committee); Ohio State Bar Association; Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (Former Chairman, General Tax Committee, 1989-1990); Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association (Past President, 1998-1999); Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Visiting Committee); Estate Planning Council of Cleveland

Shaker Schools Foundation (Trustee)

Northeast Ohio Health Services dba Connection (Former Trustee and Past-President)

Suburban Temple, Cleveland, Ohio (Former Trustee)

Cleveland State University College of Law

J.D., magna cum laude

Cleveland State University

B.B.A., summa cum laude