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Bruce C. Stockburger
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Bruce C. Stockburger

5.0
1 review

10 Franklin Road Southeast, Suite 900, Roanoke, VA 24011

Tax, Corporate, Healthcare and 7 more

About Bruce C. Stockburger

Bruce Stockburger

is a Partner in the firm with 49 years of experience providing business owners with sophisticated tax and business advice, including multi-generation wealth preservation techniques such as family limited partnerships, grantor trusts, generation-skipping trusts, charitable remainder and lead trusts, qualified personal residence trusts and business succession plans. He has served as counsel to many physician group practices, including the largest multi-specialty physician organization in Virginia for 15 years.

In addition, Bruce has represented numerous municipalities, not for profit organizations, and private developers in structuring state and federal tax credit financing transactions (historic rehabilitation, low-income housing, and New Markets tax credits) and handles tax-exempt financing of manufacturing facilities, tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions, and structuring sales of substantial assets.

A quick handshake

•If you had the opportunity to pursue another career, what would it be?

I’d be a builder. I like seeing old buildings repurposed with modern interiors.

•When you leave work, what is it that you can’t wait to do away from the office?

That’s a hard one for me. I worry about what I’ve just left.

•What is one of the most interesting places you’ve lived?

I spent a year at New York University earning my specialization in Taxation Law, and I lived in Greenwich Village. For a small-town boy (I grew up in Norfolk, Virginia), that was a real eye-opener.

•What is an important lesson you’ve learned about life?

Do it today!

Experience

•Practiced tax and business law on behalf of families and business owners for 44 years
•Served as counsel in numerous corporate mergers and acquisitions
•Served as general counsel for the largest multi-specialty physician organization in Virginia for 15 years
•Served as general counsel for numerous multi-specialty and single-specialty physician group practices
•Represented numerous municipalities, not for profit organizations, and private developers in structuring state and federal tax credit financings/transactions (historic rehabilitation, low-income housing, and New Markets credits)
•Has assisted numerous families in developing multi-generation wealth transfer and management plans, designed to minimize negative tax implications and maximize long term preservation in conjunction with their estate plan

Awards

•Named a 2025 Go To Lawyer for Taxation by Virginia Lawyers Weekly
•Named to Virginia Super Lawyers in the area of Business/Corporate law (2007-2020) and Super Lawyers Business Edition US in the area of Business/Corporate Law (2012-2014)
•Named one of The Best Lawyers in America in Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law (2008-2026), Tax Law (1993-2026), and Trusts and Estates (1995-2026); named Best Lawyers 2014 Lawyer of the Year - Roanoke for Tax Law, also listed in Best Lawyers in America - Business Edition (2016)
•Designated as a fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation (2013)
•Named a “Top Rated Lawyer” for Taxation, Business & Commercial, Health Care Law by American Lawyer Media (2013)
•Designated one of the “Legal Elite” in the fields of Business (2004-2005, 2016-2017); Health Law (2003, 2006-2012, 2018) and Taxes/Estates/Trusts (2000-2003, 2017, 2020, 2022-2025) by Virginia Business magazine
•Named a “Legal Eagle” for Leveraged Buyouts & Private Equity Law, Tax Law, and Trusts & Estates by Virginia Living magazine (2012)
•Voted a Top Attorney in Wills/Estates/Trusts in The Roanoker magazine “Best Of” (2012)

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•26 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2025 Virginia Business Legal Elite List
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Dec 2025
•Virginia Lawyers Weekly Names Gentry Locke Partner Bruce C. Stockburger a 2025 Go To Lawyer for Taxation
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Aug 2025
•31 Gentry Locke Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers 2026 Lists
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Aug 2025
•29 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2024 Virginia Business Legal Elite List
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Dec 2024
•35 Gentry Locke Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers 2025 Lists
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Aug 2024
•23 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2023 Virginia Business Legal Elite List
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Nov 2023
•30 Gentry Locke Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers 2024 Lists
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Aug 2023
•Twenty Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2022 Legal Elite List
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Dec 2022
•Twenty Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to Legal Elite List
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Dec 2020
•22 Gentry Locke Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2021
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Aug 2020
•20 Gentry Locke Lawyers Named as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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Apr 2020
•21 Gentry Locke Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America
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Aug 2019
•25 Gentry Locke attorneys named 2019 Virginia Super Lawyers or Rising Stars
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Apr 2019
•Ten Gentry Locke attorneys named to 2018 'Legal Elite' list
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Dec 2018
•20 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2019 'Best Lawyers in America '
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Aug 2018
•27 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named 2018 Virginia Super Lawyers or Rising Stars
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Apr 2018
•Test LE Registration - REVISED
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Mar 2018
•Gentry Locke attorneys again recognized as 2017 ‘Legal Elite’
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Dec 2017
•21 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2018 Best Lawyers in America
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Aug 2017
•28 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named 2017 Virginia Super Lawyers or Rising Stars
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Apr 2017
•Fifteen Gentry Locke Attorneys Recognized as 2016 “Legal Elite”
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Dec 2016
•Twenty-Two Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 'The Best Lawyers in America'
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Oct 2016
•Fourteen Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to “Best Lawyers in America Business Edition/Winter 2016” by Best Lawyers
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Jan 2016
•23 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2016 “Best Lawyers in America”
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Aug 2015
•28 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named 2015 Virginia Super Lawyers
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Apr 2015
•13 Gentry Locke Attorneys Featured in '2014 Super Lawyers' US Business Edition
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Nov 2014
•Twenty-One Gentry Locke Attorneys Earn Best Lawyers Designations and One Lawyer of the Year
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Aug 2014
•27 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to Lists of 2014 Virginia Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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Jun 2014
•Thirteen Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 'Super Lawyers Business Edition US'
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Nov 2013
•Twenty-two Attorneys named to 2014 Best Lawyers in America list; Firm Ranked in Tier 1 for Best Law Firms
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Aug 2013
•Twenty-five Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 'Virginia Super Lawyers' for 2013
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Jun 2013
•Bruce Stockburger Inducted as fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation
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Jan 2013
•2013 'Top Rated Lawyers' at Gentry Locke
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Oct 2012
•Super Lawyers Business Edition US Lists Thirteen Gentry Locke Attorneys
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Sep 2012
•Twenty-four Gentry Locke Attorneys Named 'Best Lawyers'
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Sep 2012
•Twenty-four Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 'Virginia Super Lawyers' for 2012
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Jun 2012
•Gentry Locke Attorneys Listed in 37 'Legal Eagle' Categories
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Apr 2012
•Gentry Locke Lawyers Named to 2011 Virginia Legal Elite
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Dec 2011
•Twelve Gentry Locke Lawyers Named to 2012 Virginia Legal Elite
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Dec 2011
•Gentry Locke Lawyers Named to 2004 Virginia Legal Elite
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Dec 2004

 

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Areas of Law

  • Taxation 1
    • Tax
  • Corporate Law 1
    • Corporate
  • Health Care 1
    • Healthcare
  • Trusts and Estates 1
    • Trusts & Estates
  • Finance 1
    • Tax Credit Financing
  • Corporate Governance 1
    • Entity Formation & Governance
  • Investments 1
    • Venture Capital & Private Equity
  • Business Law 1
    • Business Succession Planning
  • Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures 1
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations 1
    • Non-Profit Organizations

Practice Details

  • Payment Information
    Payment & Cost Features
    Fixed hourly rates
    Fixed fees available
    Accepted Credit Cards
    MasterCard
    Visa
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Partner
    Firm Name
    Gentry Locke Attorneys
  • Additional Links
    http://www.gentrylocke.com/stockburger

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1976, Virginia
    Memberships

    Affiliations

    •Past Chairman, Tax Sections, Virginia State Bar and The Virginia Bar Association (1986-88)
    •Past Chairman, Health Law Section, Virginia State Bar
    •fellow, Virginia Law Foundation
    •fellow, American Bar Foundation
    •fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
    •Director, Virginia Tax Foundation
    •Member, Taxation, Health Law, Trusts and Estates and Business Sections, Virginia State Bar

    Bar Fellowship
    American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
    •Director, Virginia Tax Foundation
    •Member, Taxation, Trusts and Estates and Business Sections, Virginia State Bar
  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law
    Class of 1976
    J.D.

    New York University
    Class of 1977
    LL.M.
    Taxation
    Other Education
    University of Virginia
    Class of 1973
    B.A.

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Partner at Gentry Locke Attorneys
5.0
1 review

SunTrust Plaza, 10 Franklin Road Southeast, Suite 900Roanoke, VA 24011U.S.A.

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Office Hours:
  • Monday 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
  • Tuesday 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
  • Wednesday 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
  • Thursday 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
  • Friday 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM

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    Bruce C. Stockburger was admitted in 1976 to the State of Virginia.
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    Bruce C. Stockburger attended New York University and University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law.
  • What year was this attorney's law firm established?
    Gentry Locke Attorneys was established in 1923.

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