ABOUT JEFFREY M. FETTER

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, Trusts, and Estate Administration

● 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

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