John J. Eagan Partner

John Eagan is a partner in the Business Department. He focuses his practice on taxation matters, with particular emphasis on planning for US and international business clients. John provides business tax counseling and planning on a variety of issues, including business entity transactional work (mergers, acquisitions, structures and reorganizations), business and tax structures for foreign investment in the US (business formation and investment structures, FIRPTA, transfer pricing, branch profits, repatriation and treaty issues), outbound structuring (including controlled foreign corporation issues), and S corporation, partnership, and limited liability company taxation. 

John’s focus is on strong client communication with the goal of creating clarity from the complexity of business transactions. His matters are handled in a practical and cost-effective manner consistent with the client’s business needs and objectives.

John has significant transactional experience, having represented clients in more than 150 transactions in a variety of industries, and he works to develop effective planning approaches to minimize taxation. John has represented clients before state taxing authorities, the Internal Revenue Service, the US Tax Court, and US District Court with regard to a wide variety of tax audits, appeals conferences, and litigation, including international tax audits, transfer pricing issues, spin-off and reorganization issues, refund litigation, treaty interpretation, corporate tax assessments, trust fund liability, sales and use taxation, state income tax allocation and apportionment issues, debt restructuring, and excise taxation and offers in compromise. John also has substantial experience in reporting issues for offshore accounts, including submissions to the Internal Revenue Service under the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Programs and the Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures Program, as well as advising clients on tax-exemption issues.

John has handled numerous IRS and state taxation audits, and he has substantial experience in resolving cases at the administrative level in a creative manner. 

Representative Matters

• Represented Covetrus, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVET), a global leader in animal health technology and services, in connection with its strategic investment in Veterinary Study Groups, Inc., a leading provider of peer-to-peer learning experiences for veterinary practice leaders
• Represented a regional health insurer in its joint venture with two major hospital systems to form a Medicare Advantage insurance company
• Represented a public distributor of dental and healthcare products in the creation of a new entity with a national dental supplies provider in order to better serve state dental association members with an online-only option for purchasing dental supplies
• Provided tax advice to CRP Industries, a leading supplier to the automotive and industrial service, in the sale of its automotive belt business to Continental A.G., a developer of technologies and services for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation
• Represented Stadium Goods, a streetwear and sneaker resale store and e-commerce site, as tax counsel in its multimillion dollar sale to Farfetch Limited, a publicly-traded global technology platform for the luxury fashion industry
• Advised multiple clients on part sale/part rollover equity transactions

Recognition & Involvement

John has been selected for inclusion in ”Super Lawyers” in the New York Metro Region in a survey of his peers by Super Lawyers from 2013 through 2018.

John has long had an interest in law firm management issues. He co-founded a managing partner discussion group in New Jersey and participates in a similar group in New York City.

John is active in the New Jersey State Bar Association and he organized a new subcommittee of the Taxation Section on international tax issues.