AREAS OF LAW
Tax
The Kohrman Jackson & Krantz tax group is engaged in a broad-based business transactional and tax planning practice. Our attorneys combine sophisticated planning concepts with practical approaches to achieve our clients’ goals. We offer tax advice on all forms of business transactions, including:
  • Executive compensation, including qualified and non-qualified stock options
  • Tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions
  • Corporate restructuring
  • Choice of entity, including the use of single-member limited liability companies as disregarded entities for tax purposes
  • Mergers and acquisitions involving S corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships
  • Real estate investment trusts, or REITs
  • Partnership, joint venture and real estate taxation
  • Tax minimizing exit strategies for sellers of businesses
  • Like-kind exchanges
  • Employee stock purchase plans and ESOPs

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz also has extensive experience in handling IRS examinations at all administrative and judicial levels, as well as routine tax audits, appeals and collection matters on behalf of small businesses and individuals. Recent examples of our tax practice include:
  • Representation of a cellular telephone company resulting in the dismissal without liability of a tax court case in which a tax liability in excess of $20 million had been assessed
  • Negotiation of a settlement involving a major Ohio manufacturing company resulting in a reduction of an IRS assessment of more than $3 million

For more information about our tax practice, please contact Kevin T. O'Connor at 216·736·7213 or kto@kjk.com.