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David R. Tavolier

Kahn Kleinman, LPA, Cleveland, USA


Areas of Practice:
Business Organizations, Taxation Law, Corporate Finance/Securities

Contact Information:
Phone:+1 (216) 696-3311
Email:dtavolier@kahnkleinman.com
Web Site:http://www.kahnkleinman.com

Details:

David Tavolier focuses on general tax matters, particularly mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and partnership and limited liability company formations, liquidations, and reorganizations. He also advises and represents clients on executive compensation tax issues and all aspects of state and local taxation.

Mr. Tavolier has structured numerous joint venture, like-kind exchange, deferred sale, and financing transactions for residential, commercial and industrial real estate (including REITs). He has also structured and organized venture capital funds and negotiated numerous shareholder and close corporation agreements.

A substantial part of Mr. Tavolier's practice involves structuring acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, and going private transactions involving such businesses as lodging, leisure resorts, health clubs, biotechnology, telecommunications, machine and tooling, steel, automotive equipment, packaging, commercial printing, banking, mortgage and low income housing financing, medical services, e-commerce, recruiting and consulting services, retail apparel, wholesale distribution, catalogue sales, trucking and computer software . He represents clients before the IRS appeals office, state tax agencies, Ohio Board of Tax Appeals and Board of Revision property tax hearings.

Mr. Tavolier lectures frequently about federal income tax matters involving corporations, pass-through entities, reorganizations, like-kind exchanges and state and local tax matters at continuing legal education seminars for tax lawyers and accountants. He has served as a Chairperson and speaker for the Cleveland Tax Institute and speaker for the Cleveland State and Local Tax Institute. Mr. Tavolier is a member of the American (Tax Section), Ohio and Cleveland Bar Associations.


Bar Admissions
Ohio, 1986

Education
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 1986, J.D.; Law Review: American Criminal Law Review, 1985 - 1986
cum laude

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1983, B.B.A.
with high distinction

Published Works
  • Choice of Entity for Start-Up Businesses, Cleveland Tax Inst., 2000
  • Tax Due Diligence in Business Acquisitions, Cleveland Tax Inst., 1999
  • Phantom Income: How and Why Some Investments Generate Income Without Cash, Cleveland Tax Inst., 1998
  • Acquisition and Preservation of Tax Attributes in Reorganizations, Cleveland Tax Inst., 1996


Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association, Member, Tax Section
Ohio Bar Association, Member
Cleveland Bar Association, Member

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