Practice Expertise

  • Business Law
  • Private Equity
  • Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Tax
  • View More

Profile

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, multimillion-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)

Areas of Practice

  • Business Law
  • Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Tax

Professional Career



Articles

  • "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

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