Lar’Ranz (Larz) Guider

Overview

Larz is a tax associate in the firm’s Investment Management group.

Larz advises institutional investors on the tax aspects of their investments and structured transactions. He helps clients understand their risks and ensures their investment structures comply with tax rules. Larz is currently a Loretta Collins Argrett Fellow with the ABA Section of Taxation, where he will be infusing his work in Investment Management with his passion for corporate taxation by publishing articles with industry leaders and presenting at ABA Tax Section Meetings through 2029.

Larz gained experience at an Am Law 100 firm where his work centered around property taxation and construction law. He also completed an externship at another global law firm in State & Local Tax (SALT), where he conducted research on state and local tax matters and tracked legislative developments.

During his time at Georgetown Law, Larz completed an externship at Deloitte’s Washington National Tax group in its federal tax credits and incentives division, where he drafted memos related to Qualified Opportunity Zones and New Markets Tax Credit programs. Further, Larz has worked with a variety of community organizations surrounding property tax assessments and has helped push legislation for equitable assessment practices.

Prior to and throughout law school, Larz was an educator at both the K-12 and collegiate level. He brings his patience and ethos as a teacher into his legal practice, exemplified through his experience as a legal defense fund clerk at the National Association of Social Workers. Larz earned his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School with a Concentration in Real Estate and his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.

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