Of Counsel
Tax & Employee Benefits
Corporate, Finance & Capital Markets
Banking

Reading
610.478.2090
610.988.0818 fax
hrb@stevenslee.com

Dick concentrates his practice in corporate tax and employee benefit matters and advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, employment agreements, stock-based compensation and other plans in connection with transactions involving a change in control. 

Dick advised American Bank (Meridian Bank) on the tax aspects of a series of mergers that grew the company from $1 billion in 1977 to $17 billion in 1996 when it was acquired by CoreStates, and in the conversion of Penn Savings Bank (now Sovereign Bank) through a series of mergers that have today made it one of the largest savings banks in the nation. Dick has also advised financial institutions on the tax aspects involved in more than 20 separate mergers aside from those involving Sovereign Bank and the former Meridian Bank. He has served as an advisor to insurance industry clients and has assisted property and casualty insurance clients on tax issues in mutual to stock conversions including that of Old Guard Group, Inc., the first in Pennsylvania to convert from mutual to stock form. Dick also assisted in the sale and restructuring of two leveraged ESOP-owned companies.

Dick is a former attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, and a staff member with KPMG.

Education:
Georgetown University Law Center and Temple University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 1981
The Dickinson School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1975
Duke University and The Pennsylvania State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1968

Bar Admissions:
Pennsylvania

Court Admissions:
U.S. Tax Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania