Bio

Sara Holland is a partner in the Newark and New York offices of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Corporate and Tax Practices. Sara Holland regularly serves as tax and corporate counsel in connection with mergers and acquisitions, the sale or purchase of partnership or membership interests, stock redemptions, tax-free reorganizations and maximizing the benefits of tax credits. Ms. Holland works with business owners to create the most tax efficient choice of entity, and takes a hands-on approach to the negotiating and drafting of transactional and operational business documents. Ms. Holland drafts tax memoranda on an array of U.S.-side tax issues that arise in connection with business transactions. She also advises clients on tax filings at both the entity level and individual level. Ms. Holland regularly serves as tax counsel in connection with tax-free reorganizations and maximizing the tax benefits of tax credits. Ms. Holland works with business owners to create partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporate entities, including entity formation and the tax considerations of such ventures. She also advises clients on the tax and business implications of buying or selling partnership interests, membership interests, and shareholder interests, as well as the tax filings at both the entity level and partner/member/shareholderlevel. Ms. Holland frequently counsels her clients on the drafting and revising of partnership agreements, operating agreements, and shareholder agreements. Ms. Holland counsels her clients on 1031 exchanges, Qualified Opportunity Zones, SALT, energy credits, exempt organization law, and asset protection following major liquidity events. Her corporate clients are located nationwide and internationally, which allows Ms. Holland to work closely with her business practice group colleagues located in Lewis Brisbois offices across the country. Ms. Holland continues to represent exempt organizations and guides her nonprofit clients on matters relating to programming, corporate governance, state and federal exempt organization law. Ms. Holland is on faculty with leading CLE platforms for which she presents on tax issues, most recently speaking on Qualified Opportunity Zones, renewable energy credits, 1031 like-kind exchanges, and asset protection.