North America - United States • Tax
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Steven Meier has guided us into a nuanced space where few tax firms specialize. He has been a fantastic resource. He always makes himself available, is a creative thinker and helps simply often difficult and complicated concepts.'
- 'Seyfarth's DST tax practice is unparalleled in the industry. The team is extremely thoughtful, creative and practical. They are true partners when it comes to working through complicated tax issues.'
- 'Steve Meier and Mike Lobie are outstanding. These two are at the forefront of anything DST related and are thought leaders in the space. Michelle Barnett who is one of the real estate lawyers who helps us with our DST program is also wonderful. She is extremely detail oriented, responsive and thorough.'
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Steve Meier, John Napoli