Ms. Mints specializes in health care transactional matters, including purchases and sales of medical practices, joint ventures between hospitals and medical practices, business succession planning, and mergers of practices. She assists in establishing medical practices, preparing and negotiating shareholder agreements and employment agreements and advising on qualified and nonqualified retirement plans. Ms. Mints’ extensive background in taxation allows her to understand and advised her clients on the important tax aspects of transactional matters. 

 

An experienced tax lawyer, Ms. Mints represents her clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the federal Tax Court and state taxation departments in a variety of tax matters, including audits and offers in compromise. She won a landmark ruling from the Internal Revenue Service that allowed a $2 million dollar deduction to a physician client for restitution paid to a number of third party payors. 

 

With over twenty years of experience, Ms. Mints also practices in the area of estate planning and asset protection planning. Ms. Mints’ unique approach to the planning process includes both counseling and preparation of comprehensive estate plans that reflect her clients’ values and goals for their families’ futures, while minimizing estate and income tax consequences and protecting assets. 

 

Prior to joining Kern Augustine Conroy & Schoppmann, Ms. Mints was a partner in the firm of Coughlin Duffy, LLP, where she headed the Healthcare Transactional Department. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey. Ms. Mints received her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University, her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and her B.A. from New York University. Ms. Mints is admitted to the practice of law in New Jersey and New York, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Tax Court.