Mr Ofer Lion > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Los Angeles (Downtown), United States > Lawyer Profile

Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s transactional tax practice specializes in real estate sector matters, including real estate capital markets transactions. The team assists clients with a wide variety of real estate-related assets and interests, including shopping centers, REITs, REMICs, and partnerships/LLCs. Steven Meier in Chicago has considerable experience handling real estate and alternative investments such as Qualified Opportunity Funds and REITs. He leads the team alongside New York’s John Napoli, who advises financial institutions, investors, limited liability companies, and subchapter S-corporations, among others. Rotem Bar-Kokhva in New York has experience handling like-kind exchanges, recapitalizations, and workouts in the real estate space. Ofer Lion in Los Angeles represents nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP demonstrates expertise in the full range of challenges faced by tax-exempt organizations, advising on formation, reorganizations, and fundraising matters in addition to providing general counselling and guidance on lobbying activities. Leading the department from Los Angeles are Ofer Lion, whose tax expertise encompasses both contentious and non-contentious matters, and Douglas Mancino, who is a specialist in tax controversy, including audits, appeals, and litigation. Further key members of the team are San Francisco lawyer Arnold Brown, who has significant experience in the technology sector, and Lisa Schaures in Seattle, who covers joint ventures, corporate conversions, and M&A within the non-profit space.