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Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
620 8TH AVENUE
32ND FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10018-1405
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Rotem Bar-Kokhva
Position
Partner
Career
Rotem advises private and public multinational clients, including private equity funds, hedge funds, and Fortune 500 companies, on tax matters in a broad range of business transactions. Rotem has extensive experience advising clients on domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and restructuring transactions, joint ventures, and IPOs and other security offerings, in both the United States and foreign markets.
Rotem also advises clients on real estate matters, including acquisitions and sales, joint ventures, like kind exchanges, recapitalizations, and workouts.
A dual citizen, Rotem has served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ Military Advocate General’s Office, where he was a District Military Prosecution Head involved in matters of National Security, retiring in the rank of Captain.
Education
- LLM, New York University School of Law
- LLM, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
- LLB, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
In addition to its formidable reputation in real estate capital markets and M&A, Seyfarth Shaw LLP is noted for its involvement in the tax-exempt organization space, having advised domestic hospitals, universities, and other charitable entities. Chicago-based co-head and corporate department chair Steven Meier specializes in alternative investment programs, including Qualified Opportunity Funds and other similar exchanges, while fellow co-head John Napoli focuses on real estate fund formations, such as REITs and UPREITs. Rotem Bar-Kokhva‘s transactional acumen attracts a number of private equity funds and hedge funds. All named individuals are based in New York unless stated otherwise.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Government > Government contracts
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious