 Neil R. Lapinski
Wilmington office
(302) 384-9400
nrl@elliottgreenleaf.com
Neil R. Lapinski, a shareholder, focuses his practice on the areas of business organization, mergers and acquisitions, tax, and commercial and bankruptcy litigation.
Over the last four years, Mr. Lapinski has counseled clients in the telecommunication sector in asset and stock acquisitions around the country. He recently provided consultation regarding IRC §367 implications in structuring a multi-national merger and represented the buyer in the acquisition of a Delaware-based welding and fabrication company.
Mr. Lapinski has provided workout counsel and advice, regarding out-of-court debt restructuring, rehabilitative measures, including negotiated settlements of debt, recapitalization and renegotiation of loans, leases and other fixed obligations. He has also instituted and processed orderly liquidations under federal and state law. He has assisted clients in seeking the most advantageous means of disposing business interests, whether through asset or stock sales structuring and provided consultation in structuring tax advantageous operational agreements for cross-border entities.
He has been instrumental in the firm’s Special Litigation Counsel representations. Mr. Lapinski has been lead counsel in multiple jury trials throughout Delaware, including in the United States District Court, United States Bankruptcy Court, and Superior Court in New Castle, Kent, and Sussex counties. He represents clients in complex issues involving commercial and contract litigation, tax disputes, adversary actions related to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and special needs children pursuing their education rights.
Mr. Lapinski is admitted to the State Bars of the District of Columbia and Delaware. He is also admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Tax Court. He is a member of the Delaware Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, and American Bar Association’s Tax Sections.
Mr. Lapinski earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics and Philosophy from Brown University in 1994. He graduated from American University’s Washington College of Law in 1997 and earned a Master’s in Law in Taxation from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in 2006. In 2010, Mr. Lapinski was certified as a Six Sigma Green Belt. In 2011, he was certified by the Middle Market Investment Banking Association as Chartered Merger and Acquisition Professional (CMAP).
He has authored “Delaware and Foreign Banks Can Capitalize on Quasi-Thin Capitalization,” 41 State Tax Notes 293 (July 31, 2006); 43 Tax Notes Int’l 9 (August 28, 2006), examining the recent trend in U.S. tax treaties allowing multinational banks operating branches in the U.S. to use the risk-weighted assets approach to allocate capital, and co-authored “Unauthorized or Authorized Practice of Law by Transactional Out-of-State Lawyers in Delaware,” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, May 2008, Vol. 27 No. 4 and “Using NOLs to Stabilize the Economy,” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, March 2010, Vol. 29 No. 2, at 30.
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