Alexander J Szilvas

Practice Areas

Alex Szilvas is a tax partner who has practiced law at BakerHostetler for more than 30 years. He has significant experience dealing with the tax aspects of real property transactions and is co-chair of the firm's Tax Credit Finance and Economic Development Incentives team. Alex advises regularly on the tax considerations and structuring of transactions involving real estate, as well as on partnerships and other legal entities that own, operate, develop, lease and manage real estate.

Alex works extensively in the areas of tax planning and structuring for projects seeking to utilize federal and state tax credits, especially historic tax credits and new markets tax credits, and other nontraditional funding sources. He assists a wide range of clients with their tax planning, from major public corporations to closely held developers and other businesses and their owners to investors and nonprofit organizations.

Alex is a frequent speaker on tax-related topics at numerous accredited continuing legal education (CLE) programs, including national conferences on historic and new markets tax credits. He also has spoken on a variety of tax subjects at the Cleveland Tax Institute, the Ohio State Bar Association Annual Convention and the Ohio CLE Institute. Alex is a past chairman of the Cleveland Tax Institute and a recent past president of the Tax Club of Cleveland, which is the premier tax industry association in northeast Ohio whose membership is composed of leading legal, accounting and corporate tax practitioners in the area. Alex also has published outlines and articles on various tax topics, such as an article that he co-authored on like-kind exchanges under Internal Revenue Code Section 1031, which was featured in the prestigious national BNA Daily Tax Report, and an article on the Final Opportunity Zone Regulations that was published in the Journal of Taxation of Investments.