Our Tax Planning and Litigation Lawyers are: Adam J. Grais, Steven A. Felsenthal, Richard A. Sugar and Martin M. Weinstein

Sugar, Felsenthal, Grais & Hammer LLP’s tax practice draws on broad practical experience and deep technical knowledge to structure cutting edge tax saving transactions. We advise clients regarding the tax consequences of corporate acquisitions, sales, and mergers, employee benefits, executive compensation, taxation of individuals, partnerships, Subchapter S Corporations, and Limited Liability Companies. When the IRS calls, we represent individual and corporate clients dealing with the IRS in seeking rulings, and in responding to information requests, audits, settlements, negotiations and appeals.

We help clients find tax efficient ways to design new business entities, restructure existing entities, and implement efficient transactions within these structures. Our approach is to help our clients understand the tax consequences of their decisions so they may consider alternative ways of reducing their tax burden. Because our advice is both technical and practical, our clients have learned to call us first -- while the deal is still in the conceptual stage. Our goal is to help the client find the way to make it work, and work best. Our experience makes it advantageous to consult us with respect to most contemplated actions: the financing of a low income-housing project, the purchase or lease of a factory, the sale of a corporation, the negotiation of a CEO's compensation package, the design of a family's estate plan, the settlement of a law suit.

We also have extensive experience in dealing with the IRS. When you are engaged in negotiations in the IRS, and what is on the line is your business or your bank account, Sugar, Felsenthal, Grais & Hammer LLP can help you understand when to fight, or when to fold. We will help you prepare for an audit, deal with the Examiner, negotiate a settlement, and when necessary develop a strategy for litigation and take it to trial.

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