John Biek > Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
2 NORTH LASALLE STREET
SUITE 1700
CHICAGO, IL 60602
ILLINOIS
United States

Work Department

Taxation, Tax Controversy

Position

Co-Chair, Taxation practice group

Career

John A. Biek, co-chair of Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Taxation practice group, represents large publicly traded and privately held businesses in controversies, transactional matters and tax planning involving multi-state corporate income/franchise taxes, gross receipts taxes, sales and use taxes, and other business privilege taxes. He has represented clients in state tax audits and litigation before courts, administrative law judges and departments of revenue throughout the United States.

As one of the nation’s leading lawyers in the emerging field of state unclaimed property laws, John devotes a substantial part of his practice to complex multi-state unclaimed property audits, litigation, voluntary disclosure and transactional matters for clients in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, retailing, distribution, aerospace, technology, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, financial and investment services, telecommunications, health care, insurance, utilities and transportation businesses. He helps clients determine whether their business operations are producing unclaimed property liabilities and how those operations can be restructured to minimize unclaimed property exposure

Memberships

Vice-Chair, ABA Tax Section’s State & Local Tax Committee

Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel

Education

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1987), cum laude

Yale University (B.S., 1984)

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP‘s Chicago-based practice is most active in matters pertaining to domestic and international tax and business planning, SALT, and unclaimed property compliance. Practice head and certified accountant Jeffrey Shamberg‘s wide-ranging national clientele comprises REITs, hedge funds, start-ups, partnerships and LLCs, public and private corporations, and high-net-worth individuals. John Biek is highly experienced in the emerging field of unclaimed property. Eric McLimore works with a number of for-profit and tax-exempt clients. Former co-head Scott Bakal left the firm in March 2022.