Practice Capabilities

Loeb & Loeb LLP's Tax Group provides traditional business and individual organizational and transactional tax counseling, in addition to subspecialty work in partnership, corporate, state and local, international, entertainment and real estate taxation. We offer the traditional range of representation of a large firm tax department, including advice about tax aspects of:

• Partnerships and limited liability companies, including joint ventures 
• Public offerings 
• Mergers and acquisitions, including taxable and tax-free acquisitions, dispositions and spin-offs
• International transactions and investments 
• Tax controversies and litigation, including expert witness
• Renewable energy, including tax credits and cash grants 
• Entertainment 
• Advertising, promotions and outsourcing 
• Real estate, including real estate investment trusts 
• Executive compensation and employee benefits 
• Bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors’ rights 
• State and local taxation

Service Approach

The strength of the tax department is based on our people – the expertise, experience, enthusiasm, imagination and care that we bring to bear in solving client problems. We are veterans of decades of tax practice and represent clients in large business transactions and significant tax controversies. Members of the tax department have published leading professional papers in a wide variety of tax periodicals and have lectured widely both across the country and internationally.

We are leaders in the tax bar locally, at a state-wide level, and nationally. Our experience is particularly concentrated in the partnership, corporate, international, entertainment and real estate sectors, and planning for wealthy individuals.

Individual tax partners have developed important specialty practices such as:

• Terry Cuff, with a focus on specialized problems of like-kind exchanges, partnerships and real estate investment trusts. Terry also has been active in development of tax policy in the partnership tax area, and acting as an expert witness. 
• Alan Tarr, with specific expertise in transaction and planning problems. 
• John Settineri, who offers clients counsel on a full range of domestic and international tax matters. 
• Christopher Campbell, who focuses on federal and state tax controversy and litigation matters. 
• Tom Lawson, with specific experience in transactional tax planning problems and other tax planning issues for wealthy individuals. 
• John Arao, who concentrates on transactional tax problems of entertainment, real estate and partnerships. 
• Marla Aspinwall, whose concentration is in the taxation of executive compensation, agriculture cooperatives and life insurance. 
• Dana Scott Fried, who focuses on all aspects of ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation. 
• John Warren (retired), who is a nationally-recognized expert in California state taxation.

Leadership in Law

Loeb & Loeb’s Tax Group consistently receives high praise from a range of leading law firm referral guides. Attorneys within the group have been recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States, Woodward/White, Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America^®, and Southern California and New York Super Lawyers, among others. The 2011 edition of the Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business cited the group’s “deep bench of talent,” which “ensures that the team attracts a high-profile clientele.”

Our attorneys also frequently speak and write on tax-related topics in a variety of forums. Among numerous articles and publications, attorneys within the group have authored several BNA Tax Management Portfolios, including Civil Tax Penalties (Portfolio 634), Estimated Tax (Portfolio 581) and Income Taxes: Principles of Formulary Apportionment (Portfolio 1150), as well as chapters in various books. We also publish a quarterly High Net Worth Family Tax Report and special tax alerts as changes develop.