Bari Zahn |

Zahn Law Group, LLP

Bari Zahn | Zahn Law Group, LLP

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Firm Summary

Founder and Managing Partner of the Zahn Law Group, LLP, in New York City, New York, Bari Zahn serves clients as a tax attorney, general counsel and business adviser to individuals, entrepreneurs, corporations, and family offices. She represents clients across the globe, offering them legal guidance and support on matters involving:

• Tax – Domestic & International
• Business
• Estate Planning – Domestic & International
• Executive Contracts & Employment Disputes

Having represented a diverse range of multinational clients across various industry sectors in U.S. and cross-border transactions, Ms. Zahn is an accomplished attorney with extensive tax, business and management experience. In 1996, she was admitted to practice law in the state of New York. She is also admitted before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Tax Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

Starting out her legal career at the United States Tax Court, Ms. Zahn clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Miller Parr from 1996 to 1998. After her federal clerkship, and prior to starting Zahn Law Group, she spent most of her legal career at renowned global New York law firms, such as Sherman & Sterling and Canadian law firms located in New York, such as Torys. At these firms, Ms. Zahn gained knowledge working on Fortune 100 mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and tax controversy issues. Her job also included representing clients before the IRS and the New York tax authorities.

Ms. Zahn served as Managing Director for Traust Sollus Wealth Management/Mercer Advisors where she supported senior wealth advisors with sophisticated income tax, trust & estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, family offices and business owners and general outside counsel for both profit and non-profit organizations. She is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Ms. Zahn founded and chaired the Legal Industry Council for the National Lesbian and Gay Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) at both the national and New York State levels. Honored for her extensive pro bono legal work, Ms. Zahn received the NY1 News New Yorker of the Week Award and was a recipient of the New York State Bar Association Empire State Counsel Pro Bono Provider Award. Ms. Zahn was pro bono tax counsel for the Empire State Pride Agenda and Bank Street Law Office, a non-profit law firm providing legal services for those in need. She has raised substantial funds for many charitable and political causes.

Furthermore, her entrepreneurial spirit has earned her the Brava Award issued by SmartCEO magazine.

While practicing law, she gained professional experience as the founder and CEO of Living Beyond Belief, a successful nonprofit organization. Living Beyond Belief was later absorbed by the Hetrick-Martin Institute.

Bari Zahn wins Brava SmartCEO Award

http://smartceo.com/2015-new-york-brava-bari-zahn/http://www.daiassociates.com/dai-and-associates-partners-celebrate-at-smartceo-brava-awards/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcIoTbROcVk

Interview with NGLCC

http://nglccny.blogspot.com/2013/03/10-questions-with-bari-zahn.html

Interview with Gay City News re: organization Ms. Zahn founded in late uncle’s honor

https://www.gaycitynews.nyc/stories/2004/11/aids-hero-remenbered-2004-05-26.html

Other Awards

Named “New Yorker of the Week” for her AIDS awareness work among teens in the city, NY1 News; interviewed on June 24, 2005

Published Work

• “Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Arrangements,” Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, February 2009
• “Canadian Companies—Act Now to Ensure Deferred Compensation Arrangements Comply with U.S. Tax Laws Under Section 409A,” Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, vol. 19, no. 6, Federated Press, Toronto, September/October 2008
• “Corporate Governance: American Jobs Creation Act,” Lexpert, April 1, 2005
• “The Potential Effect of the American Jobs Creation Act,” co-authored with Christina Medland, Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, Federated Press, Toronto, December/January 2005

Practice Areas

• International and Domestic
• Tax Planning
• Tax Structuring & Advisory
• Trusts & Estates
• Corporate & Business Matters
• Family Offices & Private Clients
• Employment Disputes
• China Practice

Bar And Court Admissions

• State of New York
• The Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Education

• Juris Doctor, Brooklyn Law School, 1995
• Bachelor of Arts, New York University, 1988

Law Clerk

• Hon. Carolyn Miller Parr
• U.S. Tax Court