Unruh Turner Burke & Frees has announced that attorney J. Bryan Tuk has joined the firm as a member of its Business and Transactional Practice Group.

Tuk 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 topics such as business formation, corporate governance, the acquisition of investment and credit, business succession planning, and the sale and acquisition of businesses and commercial properties. Tuk 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, Tuk 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.

Tuk 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 was recognized by peers for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star in 2010 and 2012, and he was named a Select Lawyer in Business/Commercial Law by Lehigh Valley Style magazine in 2014. Tuk is also a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and ASCAP, and he 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.

Tuk is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Chester County Bar Association.