Jason Navarino, Esq. (moderator)

Jason Navarino is a partner in Riker Danzig’s Tax and Corporate Groups. He regularly advises a wide array of large and medium-sized companies, often closely held, in structuring and negotiating domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, forming operating and investment partnerships and limited liability companies, and managing other related tax and corporate matters. He also counsels nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations with respect to governance and legal and tax compliance. Jason received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2004, and his law degree in 2007 from the Yale Law School, 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 also holds an LL.M. degree in tax law from NYU. Prior to joining Riker, Jason clerked for the Honorable Barry T. Albin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York.  He was named to NJBIZ’s Forty Under 40 list in 2016.  Jason is the Chair of the Taxation Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and also serves as Chair of that Section’s International Tax Committee.