ABOUT JEFFREY M. FETTER

Jeffery M. Fetter

DIRECT PHONE: (315) 477-6256

DIRECT FAX: (315) 425-3656

CELL PHONE: (315) 415-1155


E-MAIL: jfetter@scolaro.com

Jeffrey M. Fetter is President of Scolaro Fetter Grizanti & McGough, P.C. in Syracuse, New York, and is Chairman of the Business and Tax Practice Group. His practice focuses on business, estate, tax, succession, and transactional planning for closely held and family-owned enterprises throughout New York and Pennsylvania. Legal services Jeff provides his clients include: state, federal, and international tax and business transactional planning; estate and long-term care planning; business and succession planning for closely held and family-owned business enterprises; e-commerce planning; employee and shareholder/principal relations and employee benefits; protection of intellectual property; transactional planning; acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, tax-free reorganization of business entities; entity structuring; contract negotiation; dispute resolution; international contracts and business planning; and the dissolutions of business entities.


Jeff is licensed to practice in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The clients Jeff represents are involved in agriculture-related businesses, professional service, e-commerce, manufacturing, communications, and retail businesses.


Jeff is a frequent lecturer in the areas of business, succession, tax, and estate planning. He has authored several articles on business, succession, and estate planning for various periodicals.

PRACTICE GROUPS

● Agricultural Services

● Business and Tax

● Estate Planning and Wealth Preservation

● Commercial Real Estate and Land Use

EDUCATION

● Ohio Northern University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1983

● State University of New York at Geneseo, B.S., 1977

MEMBERSHIPS

● Onondaga County Bar Association

● New York State Bar Association

    ○ Former Chairperson, General Practice, Solo and  Small Firm Section

    ○ Member, Tax Section and Elder Law Section

● Pennsylvania Bar Association

● Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation

● American Agricultural Law Association

● Member of the New York Farm Bureau

● Board of Directors of Cornell University’s FarmNet Program

● New York State SILO Task Force Committee Member (Strategic

● Interagency Task Force Lessening Obstacles to Agriculture) – 2023

PUBLICATIONS

● “Agri-Succession Planning for 2016, The Role of the Banker and the Advisory Team in a Difficult Economy” (2016), Ag Banking Magazine, ag-banking.com

● “Reward and Retain,” December 2015, Top-Producer Magazine, topproducer-online.com

● “Estate, Business and Estate Planning: New Strategies for Family Business Succession Planning” (2014)

● “How to Stay Down on the Farm,” Washington State Agriculture Institute (July 2008)

● “The Law and You – Prenuptial Agreements & Farm Business Planning,” Northeast Dairy Business

● “Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements in Business and Estate Planning” for the NYSBA publication

● “Business Succession Planning: Passing on to the Next Generation.” International Association of Financial Planners – Fourteenth Annual Symposium

● “Formation and Maintenance of the Close Corporation and Limited Liability Company.” New York State Bar Association

● “Choice of Operating Entity – Liability, Tax, Succession and Business Issues.” New York State Bar Association

● Agri-Succession Planning 2022 – Planning and Utilization of the Advisory Team in a Difficult Economy – DFA/Agri-Max Financial Services July 2022

AWARDS

● Best Lawyers in America ● New York Super Lawyers

● Martindale-Hubbell – Preeminent Attorney

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