Creatively solving high-stakes tax controversy matters 

John Barry focuses his practice on taxation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving both public and private companies. He concentrates on:

• Tax controversy matters, including complex, multi-million-dollar disputes before federal, state and local taxing authorities
• Taxable stock and asset sales and purchase transactions
• Tax-free reorganizations and spin-offs
• Partnership transactions, including the formation and structuring of private equity funds
• Comprehensive general tax counsel

Clients turn to John for solutions to tax problems they thought difficult, if not impossible, to resolve. Bringing extensive experience in tax matters along with a fresh look and creativity to his examination of a client’s tax problems, John develops solutions tailored to a client’s long-term business objectives.

John is a former chair of the Wisconsin State Bar tax section.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.B.A., with honors, 1994)

• University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1997)

• "Tax Opportunities and Tax Traps for Real Estate Transactions"
• CARES Act: Business Tax Provisions
• CARES Act: Business Tax Provisions for Tribal-Owned Businesses
• Governor's Budget Proposes Important Tax Changes For Wisconsin Businesses
• Health Care Reform: What It Means to You
• IRS Provides Roadmap of Audit Triggers
• New Law Provides Tax Refund Opportunities For Businesses With Losses in 2008 or 2009
• New Wisconsin Tax Laws Impact Multistate and In-State Companies
• Quarles & Brady Tax Newsletter
• Recent Wisconsin Tax Changes
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
• Tax Opportunities and Tax Traps for Real Estate Transactions
• The "Individual Mandate" Upheld Under Congress' Power to Tax; Parts of Medicaid Expansion Upheld
• The Latest Wisconsin Tax Reform Plan
• ​Taxpayers Still Have Time to Disclose Foreign Accounts to IRS