Jared C. Slipman

Philadelphia Tax Attorney specializing in Partnership Tax, Corporate Tax, and S Corporations.

Jared is a tax attorney and partner in Obermayer’s Business & Finance Department. He focuses his practice on tax structuring and analysis attendant to business transactions, representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service, and advising clients on tax considerations critical to:

• Choice of entity questions and the formation, acquisition, and disposition of closely-held businesses, real estate joint ventures, and other entities
• Mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations
• Non-profit tax issues and formation and operation of tax-exempt organizations
• 1031 exchanges
• Charitable giving
• Tax-exempt financing

As a trusted advisor, Jared provides tax guidance to clients in connection with a variety of commercial transactions, which have included significant IPOs.

Jared believes in a practical, streamlined, and deal-oriented approach to tax analysis with the goal of helping clients minimize tax exposures.

In his free time, Jared enjoys family time with his wife, golf, and rooting for the Philadelphia 76ers.

Jared has extensive experience identifying value-added opportunities in the M&A context resulting from tax-efficient structuring and has performed tax due diligence and tax structuring for several multi-billion dollar cross-border carveouts, spinoffs, and outright acquisitions. 

Jared’s notable representative matters include:

• Review and Audit of IRC Sec. 355 spin-off of Dow Chemical Company from DowDupont.
• Bankruptcy tax structuring and 368(a)(1)(G) of multi-million-dollar international enterprise
• IRC Sec. 382 change in control analysis performed for a multi-billion dollar private equity company during a proposed bid for ThyssenKrupp Elevators.
• Structured the IPO and associated UP-C structure for Shift4.
• Performed multi-year E&P analysis for a Fortune 100 food and beverage enterprise.
• Performed detailed tax diligence and structuring for numerous private equity fund buy-side deals.
• Represent significant religious organization with respect to non-profit tax issues.
• Counseled a variety of local governments and governmental entities through tax exempt bond issuances.

Service and Board Roles:

• Jared serves on the Tax Policy Council of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce.
• Jared serves on the Board of Directors of ElderNet, a Lower Merion non-profit that provides aid and services to elderly persons.

Notable Engagements:

• Jared routinely hosts CLE programs for attorneys on tax-specific topics for Strafford CLE, a Barbri Company.
• Jared served as an expert panelist at Startup Bucks, a PA-based business incubator.
• Jared has presented on transactional risk management at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Law Forum.
• Jared is a recurring judge in the Temple Law Introduction to Transactions program.

Legal Academic Honors:

• Jared graduated cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law, and was the recipient of the Terrence H. Klasky Memorial Award for outstanding academic achievement in contracts and finance law. Jared was a Law Faculty Merit Scholar, as well as a member of the Delta Alpha Pi Honors Society.

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