Mr. Mark S. Balian, Esq., MBA, LL.M.
Experience:
17 years
Language(s):
English
Mark Balian | Paramus Estate & Business Lawyer
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About Mark
Mark S. Balian is an Administrative Partner with the firm sharing administration and firm management duties with Stuart Liebman and Darrell Felsenstein. Mark practices in the Tax, Trusts, and Estates and Business and Commercial areas of laws. His focus is in the fields of estate planning, estate administration and estate litigation as well as business and commercial tax planning, litigation and transactions of commercial real estate, leases, acquisitions, mergers, dissolutions, and private business compliance and guidance. His sophisticated and diverse experience and educational background enables Mark to assist his clients in multiple often interrelated areas of law while servicing with the care and attention to detail that they deserve.
Mark has negotiated and closed numerous complex business transactions and served as counsel to mid-sized businesses and public corporations in various industries and professions, often working with in-house counsel. His practice also includes succession planning for businesses, conservatorships and guardianships, and the representation of Executors, beneficiaries, corporations and business partners in litigation matters.
Mark’s experience prior to Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP includes employment with a Bergen County law firm practicing in the areas of tax, trusts, and estates and business and commercial Law. In addition, he worked for a Bergen County forensic accounting firm engaged in forensic and legal investigative casework in the areas of estate and gift tax, shareholder dissent and oppression, divorce, and damage claims assisting in the mediation of high net worth divorce cases and master of discovery roles, trust accountings, valuation of private practices, lifestyle analyses, gift tax valuations, and operating and trust agreement analyses. Mr. Balian also served as law clerk to The Honorable Susan Peikes Gantman of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Mark is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ridgewood YMCS, also serving on the Finance Subcommittee. Mark is a member of the Greater New Jersey Estate Planning Council, the Hudson-Bergen Inn of Transactional Counsel, Bergen County Bar Association, the 200 Club of Bergen County, an organization which supports local public servicemen and women, and a supporter of the Newark Fraternal Order of Police.
Mark is a cum laude graduate of Villanova University, receiving a Bachelors of Science degree in accounting with a concentration in the honors program in 2004. He graduated from the Villanova University School of Law and School of Business in 2007, receiving both his Juris Doctor and Master in Business Administration. After law school, Mr. Balian received his LL.M. (legal master’s degree) in taxation from Villanova Law in addition to a certificate in estate planning. He is licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Mark has litigated matters at the New Jersey Supreme Court and the Appellate Division level.
Mark lives in River Vale with his wife, Adriana, and son, Mark Alexander.
Mark has negotiated and closed numerous complex business transactions and served as counsel to mid-sized businesses and public corporations in various industries and professions, often working with in-house counsel. His practice also includes succession planning for businesses, conservatorships and guardianships, and the representation of Executors, beneficiaries, corporations and business partners in litigation matters.
Mark’s experience prior to Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP includes employment with a Bergen County law firm practicing in the areas of tax, trusts, and estates and business and commercial Law. In addition, he worked for a Bergen County forensic accounting firm engaged in forensic and legal investigative casework in the areas of estate and gift tax, shareholder dissent and oppression, divorce, and damage claims assisting in the mediation of high net worth divorce cases and master of discovery roles, trust accountings, valuation of private practices, lifestyle analyses, gift tax valuations, and operating and trust agreement analyses. Mr. Balian also served as law clerk to The Honorable Susan Peikes Gantman of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Mark is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ridgewood YMCS, also serving on the Finance Subcommittee. Mark is a member of the Greater New Jersey Estate Planning Council, the Hudson-Bergen Inn of Transactional Counsel, Bergen County Bar Association, the 200 Club of Bergen County, an organization which supports local public servicemen and women, and a supporter of the Newark Fraternal Order of Police.
Mark is a cum laude graduate of Villanova University, receiving a Bachelors of Science degree in accounting with a concentration in the honors program in 2004. He graduated from the Villanova University School of Law and School of Business in 2007, receiving both his Juris Doctor and Master in Business Administration. After law school, Mr. Balian received his LL.M. (legal master’s degree) in taxation from Villanova Law in addition to a certificate in estate planning. He is licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Mark has litigated matters at the New Jersey Supreme Court and the Appellate Division level.
Mark lives in River Vale with his wife, Adriana, and son, Mark Alexander.
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Experience
Partner
Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP.
Present
Paramus, NJ
Admission
New Jersey
2008
Pennsylvania
2008
Education
Villanova University School of Law
LL.M. Taxation
2009
Villanova University School of Business
MBA
2007
Villanova University
Bachelors (Accounting)
2004
Recognitions & Achievements
Associations
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Member | Jersey State Bar Association
Notable Work
Publications
Legal Blog | Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP.
Additional Info
Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP. Highlights
Real Estate
Firm Size:
1
Firm Locations:
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Languages:
English