Jeff Paravano has more than 30 years of experience handling tax controversies, tax litigation and tax investigations, structuring transactions and restructuring global enterprises to help minimize worldwide tax rates. His prior government experience with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy is particularly useful when helping clients navigate complex tax planning issues and resolving major tax disputes.
Jeff has a broad-based practice involving tax controversies, tax litigation and tax investigations – including tax promoter investigations; structuring corporate, partnership, REIT and venture capital transactions; restructuring global enterprises to help minimize worldwide effective tax rates; bankruptcy taxation; and domestic and cross-border tax planning. He also represents clients' immediate and longer-term interests before government enforcement officials, federal policymakers and on Capitol Hill, and has served as a tax expert to help parties resolve contractual tax indemnity matters and post-transaction tax disputes.
Jeff also serves as firmwide Chair of BakerHostetler’s Tax Group, which is among the largest law firm tax practices in the U.S., and as managing partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Before returning to the firm in 2003, Jeff served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, Tax Policy, at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. While at the Treasury, Jeff was responsible for providing advice on a wide range of tax policy and technical issues, including tax legislation and corporate, partnership, REIT and financial sector tax guidance. He also was one of the primary authors of the final tax shelter regulations, is author of the Tax Management Portfolio, Tax Shelters, T.M. 798, and co-author of the Tax Management Portfolio, Reportable Transactions, T.M. 648-2nd.
Jeff has assumed numerous positions of service in academia and to the legal profession. He is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a member of the American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, where he has served in various capacities, including as chair of the Affiliated and Related Corporations Committee and chair of the Committee on Government Submissions. He has been an adjunct professor in the LL.M. tax programs at Georgetown University Law Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and has served on the editorial advisory boards of various tax publications. Jeff has written and lectured extensively on tax topics and has chaired numerous tax programs, panels and task forces. He is routinely among those named in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 United States, The Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who Legal and "Super Lawyers," and was a past president of the Tax Club and editor-in-chief of The Tax Lawyer.