Bio

Eliot Kaplan is counsel to clients on corporate law matters, including private equity transactions; mergers and acquisitions; partnerships; limited liability companies and joint ventures; entity planning and structuring; entity formation and dissolution; corporate governance; fund formation; business reorganizations and restructurings; and the potential and related tax liabilities triggered by complex transactions, entity structures, and administrative tax controversies. Eliot advises and represents clients operating in a range of industries, such as real estate development, homebuilding, construction, recreation, hospitality and leisure, physician practices, consumer, manufacturing, and franchising. Eliot is also a former member of the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association. Eliot is a fellow in the American College of Tax Counsel. Active in professional and community associations, Eliot is president of the board of directors of the Arizona chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He also serves on the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and is former chair of its Business & Professionals group. Eliot is the former past president of the board of directors of the Southwest Human Development Corporation. In addition, Eliot is on the board of Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) Next and also serves as an ambassador for the regional economic development organization. Eliot participates in the American Bar Association (ABA). As a member of the ABA’s Section of Taxation, he is a former chair of its Real Estate Committee, 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 chair-elect 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.