Grassi Adds New Tax Partner to Real Estate Practice

New York, N.Y. – November 14, 2022 – Evan Fox, CPA, JD, LLM, has joined Grassi as a Tax Partner in the firm’s Real Estate Practice. His expertise covers a wide range of real estate funds and transactions, including 1031 planning, financial analysis for acquisitions/sales, joint ventures, UPREIT formation, mergers, spin-offs, reorganizations, and financings, for a wide array of clients such as leading real estate owners, operators, investors, institutional funds, REITs, and developers. Fox has served clients with a broad scope of operations, including residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, mixed use, industrial and infrastructure. Fox also has experience in the affordable housing sector. He recently has been involved in structuring and consulting clients on the implementation of Qualified Opportunity Funds.

Fox has nearly 15 years of experience working across various industries including real estate, insurance, manufacturing, law firms, technology companies, and investment management. Most recently, Fox was a Tax Leader at a national accounting firm, and prior, a Principal at a leading midsize firm based in New York.

Fox is a Certified Public Accountant and is licensed in New York State as an Attorney. He obtained his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School, Master of Laws from New York University School of Law, and Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Michigan. In 2020, New York Real Estate Journal recognized Fox as “One to Watch.”