Career
Eliot Kaplan assists clients with many types of negotiated transactions including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, programmatic joint ventures, and private placements. He also advises clients and their directors, managers, and officers on entity planning and structuring, entity formation and dissolution, board management, corporate governance, fiduciary duty matters, operating entity legal issues, commercial transactions, fund formation, and business reorganizations and restructurings. Clients seek Eliot’s guidance on minimizing the potential and related tax liabilities triggered by complex transactions and entity structures.
Eliot’s clients operate in many industries including real estate, healthcare, hospitality and leisure, recreation, homebuilding, construction, packaging, consumer goods, manufacturing, and franchising. They benefit from the experience Eliot gained in his former position as a lawyer in the national office of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). While in private practice, he was appointed to and served on the IRS Advisory Council, which advises the IRS commissioner and other IRS officials on tax policy and administration issues.
An active member of the American Bar Association (ABA), Eliot is a former member of its Corporate Laws Committee, a former chair of the Real Estate Committee of the Section of Taxation, a former member of its Sponsorship Committee, and a member of its Real Estate and Partnership and LLC Committees. He is a fellow in the American College of Tax Counsel and a past chair of the Tax Council of the State Bar of Arizona. Eliot also serves on the Tax Law Advisory Commission of the Arizona bar.
Eliot lectures widely on corporate and tax issues before audiences such as the ABA, the New York University Institute, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Texas Annual Tax Institute, and the California CPA Society. As an adjunct law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, he taught courses on the taxation of business organizations and partnerships.
