Jon G. Blaustein

American Lawyer

Jon G. Blaustein was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, obtained an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Georgia State University (B.B.A., 1976) and received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia in 1983. Mr. Blaustein has been practicing law in Atlanta since that time.

The primary focus of Mr. Blaustein’s practice is to represent and counsel closely held businesses and their principals in a wide range of business, transactional and tax matters. Areas of practice include corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, income tax, estate tax and asset protection planning, planning for succession and transfer of control, complex business, commercial and financing transactions, contracts and contract law, securities regulations and private offerings, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, franchise law and commercialization of intellectual property.

Mr. Blaustein received a Certificate as a Certified Public Accountant in Georgia in 1980. His experience includes having performed various accounting functions for a manufacturing company while completing his undergraduate degree, and extensive forensic accounting and auditing experience for a well-known insurance company to help meet the requirements for his CPA Certificate.

Mr. Blaustein is the author of "Bankruptcy Taxation: Succession to Tax Attributes," Journal of Corporate Taxation, 1984; and was a Teaching Assistant, Business Law, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1982-1983. Mr. Blaustein is a member of the Atlanta and American (Member, Sections on: Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Taxation) Bar Associations and State Bar of Georgia (Member, Committee on Cooperation with GSCPA, 1989-1992; Vice Chairman 1990), and a former member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants (Member, Committee on Cooperation with the State Bar of Georgia, 1984-1990).