Practice Areas
- Compensation and Employment
- Corporate and Securities
- Financial Institutions
- Tax and Business Planning
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 1974 with honors
- Harvard College, A.B., 1971 with honors
Lance R. Rodgers
FAX: (312) 984-3150
Lance concentrates his practice in the firm’s tax and business planning group, serving both large and closely-held entities and individuals on both the domestic and international fronts. He specializes in complex joint venture and corporate transactions, formulating optimal structures and characterization of funding in the tax, real estate, securities, intellectual property and estate planning fields. Lance advises clients before the Internal Revenue Service and other taxing authorities through the audit stage and beyond on complex matters of tax. Lance’s tax practice is very relationship-oriented, thereby enabling him to utilize his immense creativity in a manner uniquely suited to each client’s personalized needs and aspirations.
Representative Matters
- European Operating Platform
Headed up a team that created a European operating platform for a public U.S. real estate company having operations and investment activities in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as financial and managerial operations in Luxembourg. The project involved cross-border tax strategy in each of the countries of interest for the client and its institutional co-investors, as well as legal engineering in the areas of corporate matters, employment and real estate law, and supervised coordination of local counsel in each EU country of interest.