Robert R. Tufts
Partner
415-835-2201
rtufts@tsklaw.com

• General Business Practice and Planning
  
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  
• Venture Capital Financing
  
• Securities Law Compliance
  
• Tax Planning

Education
BA, New York University
JD, Harvard Law School

Mr. Tufts has extensive experience in general corporate representation, with a particular emphasis on start-up and emerging businesses and financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate taxation.  Prior to founding Tufts, Stephenson & Kasper LLP in 1999, Mr. Tufts was a name partner at the law firm of Jackson Tufts Cole & Black, LLP. 

Mr. Tufts is a current or prior Director and/or Officer of various corporations, including Adia Services, Inc., American Microsystems, Inc., Autodesk, Inc., Cardinal Sound Labs, Inc., Holex Incorporated, IntelliGeneScan, Inc., Materials Analysis, Inc., NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., OSI Security Devices, Inc., Pacific Genuity, Inc., Pacific Measurements, Inc., Planet Biotechnology, Inc., PLC Diagnostics, Inc., Prometrix Corporation, Sensys Instruments Corporation, Tamal Energy, Inc., and Z-Plane, Inc.

He is a certified tax specialist (corporate taxation) under the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

• Governor, Executive Committee Member and Secretary, San Francisco Symphony
• Council Member, The Friends of the Bancroft Library
• Chair, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (and Chair, Seaport Planning Advisory Committee)
• Chair, Port of San Francisco Waterfront Plan Citizens Advisory Committee
• Vice President and Member, Board of Directors, Olympic Club
• Member, Board of Directors, Seadrift Association Homeowners
• Member, Board of Trustees, San Francisco Art Institute

• CEB Book, Drafting Agreements for the Sale of California Businesses (First, Second and Third Editions) Author (various chapters and Supplements) and Consulting Editor
• The Taxable Merger, 7 Journal of Corporate Taxation 342
• Transfer of a Corporate Business to Another Corporation:  Taxable Sale and Purchase of Stock or Assets, 3 Santa Clara Lawyer 43
• Panelist and Moderator, various presentations involving corporate tax matters, mergers and acquisitions, incorporation, stock incentives and dissolution, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute (NY) and California Continuing Education of the Bar

Bar Admissions
California
New York