As the complexity of tax laws and business transactions continues to increase, our tax attorneys advise clients how to effectively navigate complex issues by developing creative, practical and cost-effective solutions to tax issues. Our attorneys provide creative tax advice to closely-held and publicly traded corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and individuals on the manner in which they can achieve optimum federal, state and local tax efficiencies in conducting their business activities. Our advice ranges from
day-to-day tax questions to the federal, state and local implications of transactions such as real estate partnerships, tax-deferred like kind exchanges, tax-deferred corporate reorganizations, taxable acquisitions, and dispositions
and transactions between closely held corporations and their shareholders.

• A brief overview of our expertise includes

• Tax planning & Taxation

• Structuring for and organization of business entities

• Corporate and other business structure reorganizations (acquisitive as well as non-acquisitive reorganizations) to achieve better tax and business efficiency (including use of state business organization statutes to achieve favorable non-tax results)

• Acquisition and disposition of businesses

• Representation of clients in family financial matters (including, long range tax planning and structuring) to achieve family goals, and including, in the context of family split–ups, tax advice in ongoing business transactions to reduce overall income, and estate and gift taxes

• Compensation, ERISA, qualified and non–qualified employee benefit and employment tax matters including design, qualification and compliance matters relating to qualified and non-qualified retirements and deferred compensation, health and other fringe benefits, and other compensation and benefit arrangement

• Representation before administrative agencies (Federal and state) in obtaining tax rulings for proposed transactions

• Representation in adversarial proceedings involving tax audits and appeals (Federal and state)

• Representation of clients in tax matters before appropriate state or Federal courts. Adversary representation also includes the full range of representation of clients in collection matters (both state and Federal) and assisting clients in using the full range of legally authorized protections in that context

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