TOP LAWYERS LIST TAX
Charles E. Davis
Harry Friedman
Davis has more than 38 years experience in business and commercial transactions, real estate, taxation law and estate planning. Davis has represented large corporations, small businesses and individuals and has advised his clients in tax planning and numerous other legal and business matters.
Friedman has experience in the area of general business tax planning, including the formation of limited partnerships and limited liability companies, mergers and acquisitions of both private and public corporations and in representing tax exempt organizations.
Co-founder and managing partner Davis Miles McGuire Gardner PLLC davismiles.com
Pat Derdenger
Shareholder Greenberg Traurig gtlaw.com
Yale F. Goldberg
Partner Frazer Ryan Goldberg & Arnold LLP frgalaw.com
Having worked in the tax division at the U.S. Department of Justice, Goldberg was able to see the strength of the government and he learned the need for empathy for clients and the importance of vigorous advocacy to push back hard against the government as it pushes against its citizens.
Eliot Kaplan
Partner Squire Sanders squiresanders.com
Kaplan’s practice is focused on international, federal, state and local tax issues, real estate transactions, private equity transactions, commercial and contract matters, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters.
Jack N. Rudel
Member Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, PLC jsslaw.com
Rudel is certified as a Tax Specialist by the State Bar Board of Specialization, and provides representation to clients in tax (U.S. and International), general business planning, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate.
Partner Steptoe & Johnson LLP steptoe.com
Senior counsel The Frutkin Law Firm, PLC frutkinlaw.com
Harvey L. Frutkin
Joel K. Heriford Shareholder Burch & Cracchiolo bcattorneys.com
Shareholder Burch & Cracchiolo bcattorneys.com
Martha C. Patrick
Richard C. Underwood
Derdenger is a partner in Steptoe’s Tax group who focuses on federal, state and local tax law. He was named to Southwest Super Lawyers’ 2013 list of the “Top 50 Attorneys” in Arizona and was named Best Lawyers’ 2012 “Phoenix Tax Lawyer of the Year.”
Frutkin has practiced in the area of tax law for more than 40 years. He is the author of “Taxation of Executive Compensation: Planning and Practice,” LexisNexis, 1983 (updated semiannually). He has served as adjunct professor of law in federal corporate taxation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Heriford practices in estate planning and taxation, retirement planning, asset protection planning, revocable living trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, special needs trusts, family limited partnerships, family limited liability companies, asset protection trusts and charitable remainder trusts.
Patrick’s practice deals exclusively with tax controversies. Coming from the IRS, Martha represents taxpayers involved in civil and criminal tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and the Arizona Department of Revenue.
Underwood has spent 30 years working in various areas of tax law and employee benefits law. He advises employers with regard to retirement plans, stock benefits and executive compensation and has represented employers in front of the IRS.
Partner Ryan Rapp & Underwood rrulaw.com
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