Jeff Munk advocates for clients in Washington before Congress and the Executive Branch on complex legislative and regulatory issues.  He assists clients in understanding the public policy and regulatory climate to help them shape new developments to their advantage.

After working in the US Senate, for a Presidential campaign, and clerking for a federal judge, Jeff focused his practice on Congressional and Federal lobbying.   In 2025 Jeff joined Schaerr-Jaffe to provide his clients with combined litigation and legislative advocacy services, after more than twenty years of experience with major law firms and in his own firm.  His work includes advocacy on taxation, aviation, banking and financial services, energy, healthcare, international affairs, international trade, and legal reform issues.  Over the course of his career he has taken numerous ideas from a blank sheet of paper to the President’s desk in laws and regulations. 

Jeff combines deep substantive knowledge with effective advocacy skills, political experience, and hard work.    His major accomplishments include:

  • Defending a major Cayman law firm from a U.S. Senate Finance Committee and Government Accountability Office Investigation, resulting in a GAO report exonerating the firm from aiding in tax evasion.  His work explaining Cayman’s role as an international financial center to US policymakers continues for the Cayman Islands Government.
  • For a Japanese auto manufacturer, enacting legislation treating foreign-owned automakers the same as US automakers for economic development, thus enabling a multi-billion dollar US government investment in electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in Tennessee.
  • Creating the fractional ownership regulatory model for aviation safety rules and tax laws.  This included a Congressional campaign resulting in the shared aircraft rulemaking, and drafting and enacting the tax exemptions for fractional programs and aircraft management services from the taxes on transportation by air.
  • For a commodities company, developing a multi-year campaign before Congress, the Treasury Department, and the State Department that resulted in sanctions on the government of Belarus.
  • In the energy field, Jeff successfully lobbied for:
    • a 2024 Treasury tax ruling permitting the securitization of storm recovery costs
    • an exception from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s interest expensing rules
    • the tax rules for cost recovery of natural gas gathering lines
    • the inclusion of oil & gas production and refining in the section 199A manufacturing deduction.

Education

  • LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
  • J.D., cum laude, Syracuse University College of Law
  • B.M., DePauw University

Clerkship

  • Judicial Clerk, United States Tax Court 1987-1988

Admissions

  • District of Columbia

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On August 20, 2024, Schaerr | Jaffe partner H. Christopher Bartolomucci presented oral argument on behalf of the Appellants in an appeal in the Court of Appeals of Virginia.  The case, Kozikowski, et al. v. Monroe Re, et al., concerns the interplay between Loudoun County’s Zoning Ordinance and Virginia’s Fair […]