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Alan
J.
Tarr
Partner
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Co-Chair, Tax Practice Group
Alan Tarr’s clients include a broad range of companies and individuals. His practice focuses on tax planning for business transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, reorganizations, utilizing partnerships and limited liability companies, tax benefits for renewable energy, sophisticated real estate transactions, executive compensation, state and local taxation and audits and tax controversies.
Representative Experience
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Represented major shareholders in a billion dollar split-off.
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Represented banks and developers in connection with tax aspects of renewable energy projects.
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Structured limited liability companies for private equity funds and joint ventures.
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Structured acquisition of major multimedia company.
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Represented a large distributor in reorganization and restructuring of its debt and equity.
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Represented financial services company in numerous multimillion dollar acquisitions, including asset acquisitions, stock acquisitions and tax-free reorganizations.
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Structured multimillion dollar sale of a portion of a business through a limited liability company.
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Obtained million dollar tax refund, and favorable settlements of multimillion dollar income and sales tax claims.
Publications/Speeches
- Speaker, Hot Topics in Partnership Taxation, New York, New York (November 15, 2010)
- Program chair, The Work Product Doctrine: How Does it Apply to Accounting Work Papers After Textron?, New York, New York (May 27, 2010)
- Co-author, New York City Bar Association Report Offering Proposed Guidance on the Federal Income Tax Treatment of Post-Closing Contingent Consideration in Reorganizations (April 2, 2010)
- Co-author, New York City Bar Report Offering Proposed Guidance on the Passive Foreign Investment Companies (September 18, 2009), published as Current and Quotable, Tax Notes (October 26, 2009)
- Author, Estimated Tax (BNA Tax Management Portfolio 581)
- Co-Author, Civil Tax Penalties (BNA Tax Management Portfolio 634)
- Author, numerous articles and tax research guides for professional and trade publications
- Speaker, tax matters for a variety of educational and trade associations
Media Mentions
Affiliations
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Chair, Committee on the Taxation of Business Entities, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
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Member, Advisory Board, BNA Tax Management
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Former Member, Executive Committee, Tax Section, New York State Bar Association
Distinctions
- Named "Best Lawyer" in Tax Law, The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward White, Inc. (2012 edition)
- Named "New York Super Lawyer" in Tax by Thomson Reuters (2010-2011)
- Recipient, BNA Tax Management Distinguished Author Award
- Highest "AV Preeminent (5 out of 5)" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
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New York University School of Law, LL.M., 1982
Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1979, Order of the Coif
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, M.B.A., 1979, Founders' Medal
Brown University, B.S., 1975, summa cum laude
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. Tax Court
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