His practice focuses on federal income taxation, including structuring, implementing and advising on a wide variety of matters such as:

• Mergers and acquisitions, whether taxable, tax-deferred or partially tax-deferred, including representation of private equity and venture funds, strategic participants, founders and management
• Private equity and hedge fund structuring and formation, including structuring to accommodate tax-sensitive investors, having assisted in the formation of a significant number of funds aggregating billions of dollars of committed capital
• Financing transactions, including asset-backed securitizations involving a wide range of collateral (such as receivables, railcars and aircraft), warehouse facilities, pass-through trusts, mezzanine loans, acquisition financing, capital call facilities and other structured liquidity products
• Specialized investment vehicles, including REITs
• Federal income tax controversies, both in front of the Internal Revenue Service and in federal court.

Mr. Larvick served as an adjunct professor in the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Graduate Tax Program for many years. He also passed the Certified Public Accountant examination (Elijah Watt Sells Award recipient) and served as Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review.

Mr. Larvick has been selected by his peers as a "Leading Lawyer" in Tax Law: Business from 2014 to 2023. He was also recognized by Legal 500 in 2025 in the US Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds category.