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About
Provided by 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 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 served on the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and is a 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 the Real Estate Committee of the ABA’s Section of Taxation, a former member of its Sponsorship Committee, and a member of its Real Estate Committee and Partnership and LLC Committee.
Chambers Review
USA
Eliot Kaplan of Perkins Coie LLP is held in high esteem for his expertise in tax law, with clients regularly turning to him for advice on tax implications of corporate transactional work, restructuring, dissolutions and wider corporate governance concerns. His clients include an array of local and regional businesses active in the consumer, industrials, hospitality and construction fields.
Eliot Kaplan comes recommended for his expert M&A practice, while also offering experience in transactions such as private equity offerings and joint ventures. He brings to bear complementary tax capabilities.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eliot is insightful and very smart."
"He has an incredible knowledge base, with impeccable timeliness; he always outpaces expectations."
"Eliot asks in-depth questions and understands the endgame quickly. He is very knowledgeable and truly a great professional to work with."
"Eliot is very knowledgeable and a strong client advocate."
"Eliot is insightful and very smart."
"He has an incredible knowledge base, with impeccable timeliness; he always outpaces expectations."
"Eliot asks in-depth questions and understands the endgame quickly. He is very knowledgeable and truly a great professional to work with."
"Eliot is very knowledgeable and a strong client advocate."
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