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UB Greensfelder Earns Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2026 Edition
June 4, 2026
Fred concentrates his practice on representing businesses, real estate developers, private equity companies, and other clients in taxation, real estate, business, and succession matters. Fred has extensive experience in income, estate, gift, sales, and property tax, and criminal tax matters on the international, federal, state, and local levels. Fred also assists clients in structuring business acquisitions and dispositions, Section 1031 exchanges and entity and assets transfers. Fred assists clients in preparing sophisticated business governance documents, including partnership, operating, joint venture and shareholder agreements. He has been named to the Ohio Super Lawyers list and named as one of the Top 100 attorneys in the state of Ohio and Top 50 attorneys in Cleveland by Ohio Super Lawyers. He has also been named to The Best Lawyers in America© for Tax Law and Litigation & Controversy – Tax, Trusts & Estates every year since 2005.
- Cleveland State University (B.B.A., summa cum laude, 1975)
- Cleveland State University College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1981)
- Ohio
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. Tax Court
- American College of Tax Counsel (Fellow)
- American Bar Association (Taxation Section; Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section; Member, S Corporation Committee)
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (Former Chairman, General Tax Committee, 1989-1990)
- Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association (Past President, 1998-1999)
- Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Visiting Committee)
- Estate Planning Council of Cleveland
- Shaker Schools Foundation (Trustee)
- Northeast Ohio Health Services dba Connection (Former Trustee and Past-President)
- Suburban Temple, Cleveland, Ohio (Former Trustee)
- Ranked as one of Ohio’s “Leaders in Their Field” in Tax by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2021-2026)
- Inducted into the CSU|LAW Hall of Fame (2024)
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law; Litigation & Controversy – Tax; Trusts & Estates (2005-2026)
- Named to the BTI Client Service All-Star Team for Law Firms in a survey of corporate counsel (2015)
- AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated – Martindale-Hubbell®
- Named a Top 100 attorney in the state of Ohio (2008; 2010-2012) and Top 50 attorney in Cleveland by Ohio Super Lawyers
- Named to the Ohio Super Lawyers list (2004-2019, 2023-2026)
- American Jurisprudence Award in Business Association Law
- Excellence Award in Taxation Law
- Certified Specialist, Federal Taxation Law, Ohio State Bar Association
- Certified Public Accountant, Ohio, 1978
