Bahar Schippel is a certified specialist in tax law with 25 years of experience advising clients across multiple industries through their most sophisticated tax issues and planning. She is also a leader and serves on the firm’s Expanded Executive Committee as well as Chairs the tax practice group.
Bahar is a practical and knowledgeable transactional tax lawyer. She specializes in tax planning for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, real estate transactions, such real estate joint venture agreements, drafting LLC and partnership agreements, tax planning in connection with fund formation and operations, structuring tax-efficient debt workouts, designing service provider equity compensation for LLCs and partnerships, and tax planning to maximize qualified small business stock benefits.
Within the profession, Bahar has served several tax law-related organizations, including currently serving as the president of the American College of Tax Counsel. She previously served on the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation and is a past vice chair (Pro Bono and Outreach) and a past chair of the Section’s Partnership Committee. Bahar is also the past chair of the Tax Section of the State Bar of Arizona and is the past chair of the Arizona Tax Advisory Commission, which oversees the tax specialization program in Arizona. Bahar currently serves on the Board of the Tannenwald Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarships.
Bahar frequently speaks at national and regional tax conferences as well as contributes articles to top-tier tax publications. Prior to joining Snell & Wilmer, Bahar clerked at the United States Tax Court in Washington, DC, and as Teaching Assistant to the Honorable David Laro at Georgetown University Law Center.
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