Bio
Jason D. Navarino is a Partner in the Firm’s Tax and Corporate Groups.
He has considerable experience advising both large and small business clients with respect to structuring and documenting domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in a tax-efficient and tax-compliant manner. He also helps them form operating and investment partnerships and limited liability companies, in addition to managing other tax and corporate matters. Jason also assists clients with wind-downs and dissolutions. His clients and work are spread across numerous industries, and include insurance companies and agencies, media enterprises, manufacturers, real estate developers, and entrepreneurs in the emerging blockchain and cannabis industries.
Additionally, Jason counsels nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations with respect to tax, corporate, employment, and intellectual property matters.
Jason received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where he was Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Director of the Community and Economic Development Clinic and its Small Business Legal Services program. He received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2004. Jason attained his LL.M. in Tax Law at New York University in 2013.
Jason served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Barry T. Albin, Supreme Court of New Jersey. Prior to joining Riker Danzig, he was an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP. He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and New York.
Areas of Emphasis
Partnership Tax
Corporate Tax
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tax-Exempt Entities
Corporate Governance
Joint Ventures
International Tax
Bar Admissions
New Jersey
New York
United States District Court, District of New Jersey
Education
New York University School of Law, LL.M.,Taxation, 2013
Yale Law School, J.D., 2007
Princeton University, A.B., summa cum laude, 2004
Professional Activities
Chair, Business Taxation Committee, Business Law Section, NJ State Bar Association
Chair, International Taxation Committee, Tax Law Section, NJ State Bar Association
Past Chair, Tax Law Section, NJ State Bar Association
Former Member, NJ Supreme Court Ad Hoc Committee on Attorney Malpractice Insurance
Member, Board of Directors, Microlumbia Impact Fund, Columbia Business School
Member, Legal, Wealth, and Tax Advisory Committee of the Community Foundation of New Jersey
Rankings & Recognitions
Since 2022, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has included Jason in Band One for Tax Law in its publication. Chambers also included Jason in the 2023 and 2024 publications for Corporate/M&A.
Jason has been named as one of the NJBIZ Forty Under 40 recipients for 2016. The Forty Under 40 awards program celebrates the state’s most accomplished young businesspeople who have been making headlines in their field and who share a commitment to business growth, professional excellence, and the community.
In 2015, Jason was named a “New Leader of the Bar” by the New Jersey Law Journal. A high honor, the Law Journal selects for this recognition attorneys in their second decade of practice whose achievements in the workplace and public service involvement distinguish them from their peers.
Thomson Reuters included Jason on its Super Lawyers “Rising Star” list from 2014 through 2022.
See Awards and Honors Methodology.
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