Unruh Turner Burke & Frees is pleased to announce that attorney J. Bryan Tuk has joined the firm as a member of its Business and Transactional Practice Group.
Bryan brings 25 years of legal experience to the firm, with a practice centered on commercial transactions, business planning, and banking and finance matters. He advises business owners across a wide range of industries on issues including business formation, corporate governance, the acquisition of investment and credit, business succession planning, and the sale and acquisition of businesses and commercial properties. Bryan also has extensive experience representing community, regional, and national banks in commercial loan transactions, from negotiating and drafting loan documentation to structuring interbank loan participation agreements and loan purchase and sales transactions.
In addition to his transactional work, Bryan counsels clients in the entertainment industry on copyright law, music publishing, and media matters. He has represented authors, visual artists, film production companies, record labels, recording artists, songwriters, producers, and music industry entrepreneurs, and brings a nuanced understanding of the legal challenges faced by creative professionals and the businesses that support them.
Bryan’s ties to the West Chester community run deep. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Management from West Chester University in 1996, and today, two of his children are currently enrolled there. He went on to earn his law degree from Temple University School of Law in 2000, where he was a member of the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review.
He has been recognized by peers for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star in 2010 and 2012, an honor extended to the top 2.5% of attorneys in the state and was named a Select Lawyer in Business/Commercial Law by Lehigh Valley Style magazine in 2014. Bryan is also a voting member of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and ASCAP and is the author of Tuk’s Copyright Law Report on Substack. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at the University of West Los Angeles School of Law and previously taught Entrepreneurship at Cedar Crest College.
“Over the years I have had several opportunities to interact with lawyers from this firm. Every time their professionalism and legal knowledge was very impressive. I am glad to be part of this team,” said Bryan.
Bryan is licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Chester County Bar Association.
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