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Eric is a tax attorney and certified public accountant who advises a wide range of for-profit and tax-exempt clients on all phases of complex tax matters including international, federal, state and local tax planning, transactional and controversy matters. He focuses on tax issues concerning income, sales and use and employment taxes arising from business formations and reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures and other business transactions. He also represents individuals with personal tax and residency matters and advises not-for-profit organizations on formation, operations and governance and tax compliance matters. Eric regularly provides strategic advice on entity selection and business formation issues. He reviews formation, merger and sale and joint venture documents for a broad range of entities and advises on equity and debt financings for start-up and venture-stage businesses. In addition, he advises high net worth individuals, businesses, nonprofit entities and family offices regarding strategies and issues related to the formation, operation and governance of exempt organizations and charitable foundations. Eric also represents clients in administrative matters and disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities. He has obtained IRS rulings and determinations regarding grants to and from tax-exempt organizations, high-technology industry cost-sharing arrangements and gain nonrecognition provisions in the energy sector. He also has represented high net worth individuals, estates and closely held and public companies in tax disputes concerning tax residency and domicile, estate valuations, transfer pricing and Subpart F income, equity compensation, restructuring and deductibility versus capitalization of expenses. Before his legal career, Eric worked as an auditor at a Big Four accounting firm. His accounting and related business experience has helped him build a comprehensive understanding of the taxation and business issues critical to his clients’ success. In a common-sense and cost-efficient manner, Eric helps clients understand and feel comfortable with complex tax and business concerns.
Jeff is chair of the firm's Taxation practice group. He is a tax planning advisor and certified public accountant who serves clients by developing a broad range of international, federal, and state and local tax planning and controversy strategies. He works with clients to minimize tax obligations arising out of business formations, joint ventures, financings, equity offerings, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, and loan workouts. He also represents business entities and high net worth individuals in all phases of tax controversy matters with the Internal Revenue Service and the Illinois Department of Revenue. His national client base spans many industries and entity types, including real estate investment trusts (REITs), hedge funds and private equity funds and their sponsors, family offices, startups, partnerships and LLCs, public and privately held corporations, and wealthy individuals. Regardless of the entity structure or industry, Jeff always focuses on developing tax minimization strategies that are tailored to each client’s unique business objectives. Jeff is a member of the firm's Retirement Plans and Tax Review Committees. Jeff understands that tax considerations significantly impact a client’s bottom line, and clients appreciate his creative and pragmatic approach to developing tax planning strategies and resolving tax controversies to achieve a “win-win” solution in a cost-efficient manner.
Chair, Corporate & Securities practice group; Co-Chair, Cross-Border & International practice group
Leader of the firm’s Private Equity, Venture Capital & Growth Companies practice group in addition to its Fund Formation & Investment Management practice group
Seth is a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice group. Seth focuses his practice on representing large and middle market private equity and venture funds and privately and publicly owned companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border complex business transactions. These include mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, venture capital investments, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, start-up financing, growth capital investments and corporate restructurings. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating corporate and transactional documents, including stock and asset purchase agreements, merger agreements, venture financing agreements, SAFEs, employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, letters of intent, escrow agreements, limited liability company agreements, stockholder agreements, board resolutions, commitment letters, disclosure schedules and certificates. He also has experience coordinating and supervising foreign counsel in acquisition and entity formation matters. While earning his law degree, Seth served on the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and as a Harvard College Pre-Law Advisor.