John R. Lehrer, II

John R. Lehrer, II is a partner with BakerHostetler in Washington, D.C., and serves as its Tax Group coordinator. He provides federal income tax advice focused on domestic and cross-border mergers, business acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, spin-offs, and tax-free reorganizations. Mr. Lehrer focuses his practice on the overall corporate structuring (domestic and international) of taxable and tax- free transactions, corporate divisions under IRC ¤ 355, liquidations, shareholder redemptions, entity se- lection, basis and E&P calculations, deemed asset purchases, tax due diligence, corporate loss-limitation studies (IRC ¤ 382), the overall tax aspects of bankruptcy and workouts, and the consolidated return regulations. He represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service with respect to private-letter rulings and all aspects of dispute resolution, including responses to preliminary information requests, assistance with the audit process, and representation in matters before the IRS Appeals Division. Mr. Lehrer is a frequent lecturer on various tax topics and is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation and the DC Bar Association's Tax Section, and is listed in The Legal 500 for taxa- tion. He is admitted to practice in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Lehrer received two B.S.s, in manage- ment and finance, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, his J.D. in 1999 from George Mason University School of Law, and his LL.M. in taxation with distinction in 2006 from Georgetown University Law Center.