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Jeremy

Jeremy Babener
Special Tax Counsel
Portland
D 503.778.2140
babenerj@lanepowell.com

Jeremy Babener is a nationally recognized tax attorney who focuses his practice on lawsuit awards, settlements and complex structures.   

As Special Tax Counsel Jeremy advises on tax and business matters in addition to his work outside the firm. He previously served full time in Lane Powell’s Tax Group and later as general counsel and vice-president to firm client Multistream Capital, a financial company selling customized income stream investments.

Jeremy regularly speaks and writes on tax issues relating to settlements and structures and serves as a Board Member and Chair of the Legal Committee of the Society of Settlement Planners.

Before joining Lane Powell, Jeremy served as a Tax Policy Fellow in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy, focusing on partnership tax issues including non-compensatory partnership options and debt-equity exchanges.

Professional Experience

Multistream Capital, Vice President and General Counsel (2015-2019)

Lane Powell, Tax & Business Attorney (2010-2015)

U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Policy, Tax Policy Fellow (2010)

U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Tort Claims Act Litigation Section, Law Clerk (2008)

Unemployment Action Center, New York University School of Law, Student Advocate (2007-2010)

The Brookings Institution, Intern (2006)

Community Involvement

Oregon State Bar

  • Member, Newsletter Committee, Tax Section
  • Former Member, Executive Committee, Tax Section

Society of Settlement Planners

  • Chair, Legal Committee (2013-Present)
  • Board Member (2014-Present)

Portland Tax Forum

  • Former Board Member

 

Thought Leadership

  • October 28, 2022Publication
    Structured Settlements Are Back - After Two Years Of Court Closures And Low Rates
    Forbes
  • March 25, 2022News
    Babener Authors Bloomberg Tax Article ‘Increasing Plaintiffs’ Payoff by Pushing Defendants on Taxes’
    In the News
  • June 30, 2016Publication
    New Tax Guidance on Wrongful Imprisonment Damages
    Lane Powell White Paper
  • February 11, 2016Publication
    Retroactive Tax Law Provides Tax Benefits for Victims of Wrongful Incarceration
    Lane Powell White Paper
  • January 26, 2015Publication
    Recent Tax Court Decision Addresses the Tax Treatment of Amounts Received for Anticipated Injuries
    Lane Powell White Paper
  • December 4, 2014Event / CLE
    Startups and Emerging Companies: Kick-start Your New Year
    Lane Powell Seminar | Seattle
  • November 14, 2014Event / CLE
    Tax Issues Raised by the Use of Foreign Assignment Companies in Structured Settlements
    Qualified Settlement Funds Symposium | Memphis, Tennessee
  • November 10, 2014News
    Babener Elected to Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar Taxation Section
    Awards & Honors
  • November 5, 2014News
    Lane Powell Featured in Puget Sound Business Journal Special Insert About Dec 4 Startups and Emerging Companies Seminar
    In the News
  • October 29, 2014News
    Thirteen Lane Powell Attorneys Named to Oregon State Bar’s 2013 Pro Bono Honor Roll
    Awards & Honors
  • October 22, 2014Publication
    A Tax Incentive for Oregon’s Artists to Donate Their Work
    Lane Powell White Paper
  • Spring 2014Publication
    How Oregon Taxes Its Visiting Workforce
    Oregon State Bar Taxation Section Newsletter
  • October 25, 2013Publication
    Three Common Questions Asked By Advisors of Non-Filing Taxpayers
    Lane Powell White Paper
  • October 16, 2013Publication
    With 2013 Oregon Income Tax Changes, Some Businesses Should Revisit Their Ownership Structure
    Lane Powell White Paper
  • July 19, 2012Publication
    Recent U.S. Tax Court Decision Highlights Issues Regarding the Tax Treatment of Damages for Stress-Induced Physical Ailments
    Practical Tax Strategies
  • April 2011Publication
    Death and Damages Can be Taxing
    Trusts & Estates
  • November 29, 2010Publication
    Maximizing the Medical Care Exception to the Tax on Emotional Distress Damages
    Practical Tax Strategies and North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
  • November 8, 2010Publication
    Taking Medical Expense Deductions Before and After a Personal Injury Suit
    Practical Tax Strategies and North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
  • April 19, 2010Publication
    Expanding the Structured Settlement Tax Exclusion
    Tax Notes
  • March 8, 2010Publication
    Plaintiffs Might Receive Emotional Distress Damages Tax-Free After 2010
    North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
  • Spring 2010Publication
    Structured Settlements and Single-Claimant Qualified Settlement Funds: Regulating in Accordance with Structured Settlement History
    NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy
  • December 14, 2009Publication
    Treasury Decides to Pass on Single-Claimant Qualified Settlement Fund Guidance for Now
    North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
  • Fall 2009Publication
    Justifying the Structured Settlement Tax Subsidy: The Use of Lump Sum Settlement Monies
    NYU Journal of Law & Business

Practices & Industries

  • Tax
  • Tax Reform

Education

  • New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 2011
    • Tax Policy Fellow
  • New York University School of Law, J.D., 2010
    • Journal of Law and Business, Notes Editor
    • Unemployment Action Center, Board Member/Advising Coordinator
  • Haverford College, B.A., Political Science, with high honors, 2007
    • Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency
    • Best Thesis in Political Science Award
    • Honor Council, Class Representative
  • University of Oxford, 2005-2006
    • Oxford Debating Society, Member

Admissions

  • Oregon
  • U.S. District Court, District of Oregon
  • U.S. Tax Court

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