Barr Law Offices
Law Practice - Jerusalem, , Israel
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Barr Law Offices is a boutique tax and commercial law firm, founded by Louis Barnett Barr. Louis is a dual-qualified US & Israeli tax lawyer with a strong focus on business formation and investment structuring, executive compensation and commercial transactions. He also has comprehensive experience in advising on the tax and executive compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions, especially cross-border US/Israel high-tech transactions.Louis has over 30 years of experience in advising public, private and tax-exempt entities in relation to the complete range of issues in setting up and operating employee benefit programs. These programs include equity compensation incentive plans, qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, welfare benefit arrangements and severance agreements. Widely considered an expert in global compensation plans, Louis is frequently contacted by Israeli companies setting up operations in the US on all matters relating to recruitment and compensation plans.Tax-exempt organizations, such as charities, foundations, educational and health organizations as well as trade associations, regularly tap into his depth of experience relating to tax-exempt status, private foundation rules, intermediate sanctions and unrelated business income tax.Prior to moving to Israel, Louis was a partner in the Tax and Wealth Planning Group at Venable LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm headquartered in Washington DC.Representative Matters• Acting as US Counsel for an Israel-based real estate investment fund focused on high yielding quality real estate-based investments primarily in the United States.• Negotiating US tax, employee benefits and compliance matters for Crosswise Limited in its sale to Oracle Corporation.• Advising Panoramic Power on the corporate, tax and employee benefits aspects of its US$60 million sale to Centrica plc.• Acting for Intellinx, on US issues relating to its US$67 million sale to US company Bottomline Technologies Inc.
