Edward L. Epstein
Experience
Ed Epstein has a corporate and securities practice advising businesses on transaction
structures and business structures, operations, mergers and acquisitions and financing.
He advises clients in the health care industry and has represented clinical
laboratories, hospitals, professional corporations and managed care organizations.
Since the 1960s Ed has acted as counsel to companies involved in logging, forest
products manufacturing, money management, electronics, software production,
medical and dental equipment, casualty insurance and the management of regulated
investment companies and real estate investment trusts. He has spoken and written
on such subjects as mergers and acquisitions, the taxation of timber operations, the
taxation of real estate investment trusts, the keeping of corporate minutes and other
records, consolidation in the health care industry, the antitrust aspects of
consolidation in the health care industry and organization of managed care entities.
Retired Partner
He has broad experience counseling clients with respect to the purchase and sale of
Portland, OR
businesses in taxable transactions and tax-free reorganizations. He also has significant
(503) 294-9245 direct
experience in devising employee stock incentive programs. Ed is the co-chair of the
firm's Mergers and Acquisitions practice group. He serves as corporate counsel to both
public and privately held clients of the firm. Ed has been designated in "The Best
Lawyers in America" both in corporation law and health law since 1989.
(503) 220-2480 fax
ed.epstein@stoel.com
Education
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L.L.B., magna cum laude, Harvard
Civic Activities
University Law School, 1961, Member
Former trustee, Morrison Center for Youth and Family Service; former trustee and
board of editors, Harvard Law Review,
president, Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center; former trustee, Oregon
1960-1961
Association of Hospitals Foundation; former member, Neurological Sciences Center
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A.B. with great distinction, honors in
Operating Committee of Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center; former director
economics, Phi Beta Kappa , Stanford
and secretary, Portland Hospital Facilities Authority.
University, 1958
Professional Activities
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Walla Walla High School, Walla Walla,
Washington, 1954
Former chairman, Oregon State Bar Committee on Taxation; former chairman,
Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar section on Corporation and Business
Admissions
Law; member, American Bar Association sections on Taxation and Corporation,
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Oregon
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U.S. District Court of Oregon
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Banking and Business Law; Fellow, American Bar Foundation.