Profile

Jeffrey concentrates his practice on business succession planning for closely held and family owned businesses, which includes all areas of general corporate law and trusts and estates law matters.

He represents multi-generations of families, and family or closely-held businesses, with a focus on business, estate, tax, transactional and succession planning, inter-generational wealth transfers, philanthropic plans and trust administration.

His practice includes sophisticated estate and financial planning for wealth preservation and asset protection, charitable planned giving and tax compliance. He counsels clients on the use of charitable trusts and charitable foundations, qualified personal residence trusts, limited liability companies and family limited partnerships in conjunction with their estate and business succession plans.

Jeffrey has represented several family owned businesses in the development of business succession plans, which includes the transfer of equity between generations and the sale of equity to unrelated third parties. He has also represented families in the formation of private foundations, both to accomplish a family’s estate and asset protection goals and to establish a vehicle for a family’s collective charitable giving.

  • Listed in:
    • The Best Lawyers in America®, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships); Corporate Law, 2023-2025
      • Lawyer of the Year (Syracuse), Corporate Law - Management, 2025
    • New York Super Lawyers®, Business and Corporate, 2024
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Massachusetts Bar Association
  • Onondaga County Bar Association

  • "Summer Fun" Series - An Interview with Jeffrey Scheer, Legally Bond Podcast, August 1, 2022
  • An Interview with Jeffrey Scheer, Business Law and Cannabis, Legally Bond Podcast, May 17, 2021
  • Managing in Year 2 of a Pandemic - Round 2 of PPP Loans, Chemung County Chamber of Commerce, February 16, 2021
  • Panel Member, SBA's Paycheck Protection Program and Farmer Co-ops, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, April 6, 2020
  • Panel Member, Successful Strategies for Ownership Transition, Dannible & McKee’s Central NY Manufacturing Conference, October 17, 2017
  • Legal Update, Syracuse Builders Exchange - Construction Company Growth Accelerator Program, October 11, 2017
  • Moderator, UVANY Middle Market Forum, March 15, 2016
  • The Echoes of the New York State Revitalization Act - Is Your Organization Compliant?, Dannible & McKee’s Annual Nonprofit Conference, January 13, 2015

  • Business Journal News Network, Board Leadership Award Honoree 2016
  • Board Member, Green Family Foundation
  • Board Member, The Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York, Inc.
  • Board Member, The Jewish Health & Rehabilitation Center
  • Board Member, The Jewish Home of Central New York Foundation
  • Former Member and Chair, Board of Trustees, Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York, Inc. (WCNY)