Eliot L Kaplan

Practice Areas

Corporate Law

Private Equity

Mergers & Acquisitions

Tax Law

Federal Tax

Hospitality

Career

Eliot Kaplan is a corporate and tax attorney with more than 30 years of experience. Eliot is a trusted advisor to clients on an array of corporate and general business matters, including private placements, private equity transactions; mergers and acquisitions; partnerships; limited liability companies and joint ventures; programmatic joint ventures, entity planning and structuring; entity formation and dissolution; corporate governance; fund formation; and business reorganizations and restructurings. Eliot also is a trusted advisor with respect to minimizing the potential and related tax liabilities triggered by complex transactions and entity structures.

Eliot advises and represents clients operating in a number of industry sectors including real estate, physician and other health care practices, hospitality and leisure, recreation homebuilding, construction, packaging, consumer, manufacturing, and franchising.

Eliot is a former member of the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association, and a fellow in the American College of Tax Counsel.

Active in professional and community associations, Eliot is council president of of the Desert Southwest Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He also serves on the board of Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) Next and as an ambassador for the regional economic development organization. Eliot most recently has served on the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and is former chair of its Business & Professionals group, where he remains active. Eliot is the former past president of the board of directors of the Southwest Human Development Corporation.

Eliot participates in the American Bar Association (ABA). In addition to serving on the Corporate Laws Committee of the ABA’, he is a former chair of its Real Estate Committee of the ABA’s Section of Taxation, a former member of its Sponsorship Committee, and is a member of its Real Estate Committee and Partnership and LLC Committee.

In Arizona, Eliot is the immediate past chair of the Tax Council of the State Bar of Arizona and serves on the Tax Law Advisory Commission of the State Bar of Arizona.

Eliot is a former attorney in the national office of the Internal Revenue Service, and, while in private practice, was appointed and served on the IRS Advisory Council, which advises the IRS commissioner and other IRS officials on tax policy and administration issues.

Eliot lectures widely on corporate and tax issues before audiences such as the ABA, New York University Institute, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Annual Tax Institute, and the California CPA Society. As an adjunct professor of law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, he taught courses on the taxation of business organizations and partnerships.