Tax Conference Speakers & Panelists
Sarah Brodie
Sarah Brodie concentrates her practice on tax planning, with special focus on partnership tax. She advises financial institutions, energy companies, and other multinational corporations in various contexts. Sarah has worked in mergers and acquisitions, internal restructurings, and various proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She drafts partnership agreements and recently became a co-editor of Structuring and Drafting Partnership Agreements: Including LLC Agreements (Warren, Gorham & Lamont).
Sarah previously interned for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, Large and Mid-Sized Business division. She assisted in tax shelter litigation and in settlement negotiations with corporate taxpayers.
Charlotte Crane
Charlotte Crane is Professor of Law Emerita at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. After clerkships with the Federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Federal Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and the Supreme Court, she practiced tax law with the Chicago firm Hopkins and Sutter. Her academic research has focused on the problems of defining broad-based taxes and the mechanisms through which these rules evolve, and in the history of various tax institutions, especially in the era of the Early Republic. She has served as Professor in Residence at the Office of Chief Counsel with the Internal Revenue Service and has taught at the European Tax College and the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China. Her publications include Corporate Taxation (Carolina Academic Press 2012) (with Linda McKissack Beale); Foreword: 100 Years Under the Income Tax, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. 767 (2014); “The Income Tax and the Burden of Perfection”, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 171-187 (2006); Matching and the Income Tax Base: The Special Case of Tax Exempt Income, 5 American Journal of Tax Policy 191 (1986); More on Accounting for the Assumption of Contingent Liability on the sale of a Business, 3 Florida Law Review 615 (1997); Liabilities and the Need to Keep the Income Tax Base Closed, 25 Virginia Tax Review 31 (2005); “Pennington v. Coxe: A Glimpse at the Federal Government at the End of the Federalist Era,” 23 Virginia Tax Review 417 (2003); Toward a Theory of the Corporate Tax Base: The Effect of a Corporate Distribution of Encumbered Property to Shareholders, 44 Tax Law Review 113 (1989).
Tim Devetski
Tim Devetski is a principal in the International Tax & Transaction Services group of EY LLP, where he counsels clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and financings. He has significant experience advising private equity funds on the tax aspects of portfolio company acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings and initial public offerings. Prior to joining EY LLP in 2017, Tim was a partner with a multinational law firm, where he had also served as one of the managing partners of that firm’s Houston office. Tim received his LL.M. (in Taxation) from New York University School of Law, his J.D. from Northwestern University (now Pritzker) School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Houston. He has previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center, teaching separate courses on Advance Corporate Taxation and the Taxation of Sales and Exchanges. He is a member of the Tax Sections of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association and is admitted to practice law in Texas.
Julie Divola
Julie Divola leads Pillsbury’s Tax practice in San Francisco. Her practice focuses on the tax aspects of business and financial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings.
Julie serves as President of the American Tax Policy Institute and as a Regent for the American College of Tax Counsel. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the ABA Section of Taxation.
Julie serves on a variety of professional advisory boards. She has taught Corporate Tax as a Lecturer at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law and as a Visiting Professor at the U.C. Davis School of Law.
Julie serves as Secretary and Trustee for the van Löben Sels/Rembe Rock Foundation, a private foundation that promotes social justice causes through legal services and advocacy.
Matt Donnelly
Matt Donnelly is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Mr. Donnelly represents public and private companies on a broad range of U.S. federal and state income tax matters, with a concentration on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, Reverse Morris Trust transactions, joint ventures, financing transactions, capital markets transactions, restructurings and internal reorganizations.
Mr. Donnelly is an adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law, where he has taught corporate tax law since 2017, and at Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught since 2020 and in 2024 will teach a first-of-its-kind course on tax incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. In addition, Mr. Donnelly regularly speaks and writes on tax-related topics, including for the International Fiscal Association and at the USC Gould School of Law’s Tax Institute, the American Petroleum Institute Federal Tax Forum, and Practicing Law Institute’s Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances conference.
Mr. Donnelly received his law degree with high honors from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he also served as the Editor in Chief of the Iowa Law Review and won a Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. Mr. Donnelly received a B.S.J. from Northwestern University, where he served as Editor in Chief of The Daily Northwestern. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Illinois.
Tijana J. Dvornic
Tijana J. Dvornic is a Partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Tax Department. Ms. Dvornic focuses on tax aspects of U.S. and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and other dispositions, leveraged buy-outs, joint ventures and financing transactions. Tijana has been recognized as one of the country’s five top tax lawyers under 40 by Law360 and as one of the 500 leading dealmakers in America by Lawdragon.
Ms. Dvornic received a B.B.A. with highest distinction from the University of Michigan. Ms. Dvorniccompleted a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was the articles editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Following law school, she was a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Priscilla R. Owen in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Ms. Dvornic received an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law in 2016 and was awarded the David H. Moses Memorial Prize.
Ms. Dvornic is a member of the Executive Committee of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and a member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association.
Phillip Gall
Phillip Gall is a Principal in the Partnership Transaction Group in Ernst & Young LLP’s National Tax Department and is located in New York. He focuses on the taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, and limited liability companies. Phillip has significant experience in the formation, operation, and unwinding of these types of entities for large multinationals and for investment funds in both the international and domestic context. Phillip is an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, where he has taught partnership tax courses for nearly 20 years and is a former member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section. Phillip has published the following articles: Phantom Tax Regulations: The Curse of Spurned Delegations (Tax Lawyer, Winter 2003), Partnership Distributions of Marketable Securities (Tax Notes, Nov. 12, 2007), The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Debt in Partnership Transactions (Taxes, March 2012), and Nothing from Something: Partnership Continuations under Section 708(a) (Taxes, March 2017).
L.G. “Chip” Harter
L.G. "Chip" Harter was a senior policy advisor to PwC. He is now retired.
He served the Department of the Treasury as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Tax Policy for International Tax Affairs from September 2017 through November 2020.
As Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs, Mr. Harter was responsible for all international tax matters at Treasury.He played a central role in representing the Treasury in the legislative process for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which was signed into law in December 2017. Mr. Harter then led the development and issuance of an integrated set of regulations to implement the new international provisions of the TCJA, including regulations to implement the Global Intangible Low Tax Income (GILTI) regime, the Base Erosion Anti-Avoidance Tax (BEAT), and the Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) regime.
Mr. Harter also represented the United States in tax negotiations at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). At the OECD, he led the efforts to revise long-standing international tax rules that provide for the allocation of taxing rights over multinational businesses, representing the United States in negotiations over the designs of the Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 proposals.
In recognition of these services, Mr. Harter was awarded the Treasury Medal.
Prior to joining the Treasury, Mr. Harter served for 18 years as a principal in the Washington National Tax Service of PwC. Prior to joining PwC, Mr. Harter served 18 years, first as an associate and then as a partner, with the international law firm of Baker& McKenzie. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Martin Huck
Martin Huck is a principal in Ernst & Young LLP’s National Tax M&A group. His practice involves a wide range of Federal income tax issues relating to multinational corporate transactions, with focus on subchapter C, consolidated groups, and related provisions. He leads engagements that include transaction structuring and implementation, opinions, and private letter ruling requests.
Martin joined EY from the Corporate Division of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. Prior to working at the IRS, he was a clerk at the United States Tax Court. He holds a BS in Mathematics and English from Carnegie Mellon University, a JD from Indiana University’s School of Law in Bloomington, and an LLM in Taxation from the University of Baltimore’s School of Law.
Martin is a former Chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section. He has participated in numerous panels over the years, including for the ABA Tax Section, DC Bar Association Corporation Tax Committee, Practicing Law Institute, Southern Federal Tax Institute, and Texas Federal Tax Institute.
Martin and his wife Cindy Lin (who is also a tax practitioner!) live in Washington, DC with their ridiculously cute Schnauzer, Albert.
Rafael Kariyev
Rafael Kariyev is a partner of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and a member of the Tax Department who focuses his practice on tax planning in connection with private equity fund formation and M&A transactions. He regularly advises private equity funds on tax issues at all levels of the fund structure. In addition, Mr. Kariyev regularly advises clients on tax structuring the acquisition, holding and disposition of portfolio companies, both pass-throughs and corporations, as well as transactions involving the restructuring and sale of existing funds and sales of asset managers. Mr. Kariyev also leads the tax aspects in the firm’s Private Fund Transactions Group, where he regularly provides tax advice to general partners, secondaries fund sponsors, sovereign wealth funds and other investors on secondary transactions, GP-led restructurings and tender offers, co-investments and GP staking transactions.
Brian Krause
A partner in the Tax Department, Brian Krause advises clients on a broad range of U.S. and international tax matters, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions. He advises on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, post-acquisition integration transactions, internal restructurings and the establishment of private equity fund and hedge fund structures. Brian also provides tax advice in connection with the restructurings of financially distressed corporations and partnerships, both in and out of bankruptcy court, and in matters involving master limited partnerships.
Rob Liquerman
Robert Liquerman is Special Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate). Rob manages the private letter ruling and training programs and reviews various guidance projects under the jurisdiction of ACC (Corporate). In addition, he advises the Associate Chief Counsel on all technical matters within the office’s jurisdiction.
Robert Liquerman was previously employed by KPMG LLP’s Washington National Tax Corporate Group for 26 years and was a principal for 21 years. In his role at KPMG, he advised clients and firm professionals on matters regarding mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate distributions, corporate reorganizations, discharges of indebtedness, bankruptcy, and workouts.
Before joining KPMG, Rob served as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, Office of the Chief Counsel (Corporate). In this position, he drafted Treasury regulations, private letter rulings, technical advice memoranda, closing agreements, responses to congressional inquiries, field service advices, and memoranda of law. Previously, Rob was a senior tax associate at Coopers & Lybrand in New York.
Rob has been an adjunct professor of law in the LL.M. program at the Georgetown University Law Center for 26 years where he teaches Taxation of Bankruptcy and Workouts. He previously served as an adjunct professor in the LL.M. program at the College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law. Rob is the co-author of the Bankruptcy & Insolvency Taxation treatise.
A frequent lecturer on mergers and acquisitions, Rob has instructed internal and external continuing professional education courses and participates on panels at bar CLE events.
Rob received his LL.M. in Taxation from NYU in 1999, a JD from St. John’s University in 1987, and a B.S. in accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1984. Rob grew up in New York City.
David Noren
David G. Noren focuses his practice on international tax planning for multinational companies. David advises clients on a wide range of “outbound” and “inbound” issues, with a particular focus on the subpart F anti-deferral rules, the application of bilateral income tax treaties, and the treatment of cross-border flows of services and intellectual property rights under transfer pricing and other rules.
Prior to joining the Firm, David served as legislation counsel to the Joint Committee on Taxation in the US Congress where he advised the House Ways & Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and other members of Congress on proposed international tax legislation. He played a major role in the development of several international tax bills, including those culminating in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004.
David also advised the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the review and ratification of several tax treaties and protocols, carried out the international tax aspects of special investigations and studies requested by members of Congress, and assisted in the Joint Committee staff’s review of large tax refunds in the international area. Prior to working in Congress, David taught in the tax program at the New York University School of Law.
David has testified in congressional hearings on international tax issues and is a frequent writer and speaker on such topics. While in law school, David was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Josh Odintz
Joshua D. Odintz is a tax attorney in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Odintz focuses on tax policy, tax controversy and withholding tax matters. He also advises clients on domestic and international tax controversy matters at all phases, from audit and administrative appeals through litigation.
Mr. Odintz also has experience handling cases involving methods of accounting, transfer pricing, Section 199, research credit, tax accounting, privilege and work product, among others.
Mr. Odintz represents clients before the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. Congress and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He assists clients in seeking legislative and regulatory changes to tax laws, as well as monitoring key legislative and regulatory developments. He has successfully worked with clients to obtain changes in U.S. tax reform bills, Section 385 regulations of the Internal Revenue Code (debt/equity rules) and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regulations.
In addition, Mr. Odintz focuses on withholding tax issues, FATCA and the OECD's Common Reporting Standard (CRS). He advises domestic and foreign entities on FATCA and CRS issues, including the FATCA and CRS status of entities, reporting, documentation and FATCA withholding.
Furthermore, Mr. Odintz has extensive experience representing clients under investigation by the Congress, including the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). He assists clients during all phases of investigation, including responding to information and document requests, witness interviews and hearings.
Mr. Odintz is a frequent speaker at the International Fiscal Association (IFA), Tax Executives Institute (TEI), American Bar Association (ABA), the University of Chicago Tax Conference and the D.C. Bar Association.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Odintz was a tax attorney at a multinational law firm's Washington, D.C., office, where he was on the management committee of the firm's North America tax practice.
In addition, Mr. Odintz has held high-level government positions with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Senate Committee on Finance. He previously served as a senior advisor for tax reform to the assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, where he advised senior treasury officials on tax reform options and issues. Mr. Odintz also served as the chief tax counsel to President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and was instrumental in formulating the tax proposals in the commission's report. Additionally, Mr. Odintz served as the acting tax legislative counsel at the Treasury.
Paul W. Oosterhuis
Mr. Oosterhuis is a senior international tax practitioner with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he is Of Counsel. Mr. Oosterhuis has had over 30 years of experience in international acquisition and disposition transactions and tax planning for U.S. and foreign-based multinational corporations. He also represents clients on controversy matters with the Internal Revenue Service, including intercompany pricing matters.
He received his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. Degree from Harvard Law School. After law school he became a Legislation Attorney for the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress, and later served as the Committee's Legislation Counsel. He is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University Law School where he teaches U.S. International Taxation.
He has lectured at various professional seminars and institutes, has written on a variety of tax planning and tax policy matters, and has testified before Congressional tax writing committees on tax policy issues.
Sam Pollack
Sam Pollack is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Global Tax Practice Group in Chicago. He has been advising corporations and pass-through entities on federal income tax planning and M&A matters since 2013. He routinely advises US multinationals and foreign inbounds on cross-border tax issues, including reorganizations, structuring of outbound and inbound investments, foreign tax credits, subpart F, GILTI, withholding and treaty analysis, Pillar II and cross-border partnership matters. He also has extensive experience related to mergers and acquisitions, spin-off transactions, divestitures and collaborations. Sam received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law and his B.A. from the Ohio State University. He is a frequent speaker on international tax topics and he has authored and co-authored a number of articles on an array of federal income tax matters. Sam also teaches the Controlled Foreign Corporations class as an adjunct professor in Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s LLM in Taxation Program.
Jennifer Ray
Jennifer Ray is a principal in the Washington National Tax Passthroughs Group of Deloitte Tax LLP. Jen specializes in issues arising in connection with the use of partnerships in mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, and restructurings, particularly in the private equity, investment fund, and real estate context.
Jen is a frequent lecturer at some of the country's leading tax conferences including those organized by the American Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, University of Chicago, Federal Bar Association, Tax Executives Institute, and the DC Bar. Jen has published numerous articles on partnership tax matters including in Taxes, Tax Analysts, Tax Executive, and Taxation of Financial Products.
Before joining Deloitte, Jen practiced law as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of an international law firm.
Jen received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was an executive editor of the Journal of Law and Public Policy. She received her A.B. from Princeton University.
Julie Roin
Julie Roin is currently the Seymour Logan Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Since her arrival at the Law School, she has taught classes in federal income taxation, tax policy, local government law, and state and local finance. She came to Chicago from the University of Virginia School of Law and has taught at a number of other law schools. Prior to entering academia, she practiced at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington D.C., and clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Hon. Patricia Wald. Some of her recent articles include: Subpar” F? The Role of Anti-Deferral in a Post-GILTI (and Maybe Pillar Two) World, 101 Taxes—The Tax Magazine 59 (2023); Duplicative Taxation Among the States: A Problem Not Worth Solving?, 25 Fla. Tax Rev. 607 (2022); The Foreign Tax Credit Implications of Reallocating the Income of “Digital” Taxpayers, 99 Taxes—The Tax Magazine 33 (2021); Changing Places, Changing Taxes: Exploiting Tax Discontinuities, 22 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 335 (2021); Judge Wood Meets International Tax, 87 U. Chi. L. Rev. 2453 (2020); The Case For (And Against) Surrogate Taxation, 39 Va. Tax Rev. 239 (2019).
David Schnabel
David is the head of the Tax practice at Davis Polk. He advises clients on a full range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, financings, PIPEs, joint ventures and inversions. Clients also look to David for guidance on tax issues, strategy and the impact of potential tax-law changes.
David is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA, and Legal 500 U.S. includes him in its Hall of Fame for non-contentious tax work.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a former chair of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Anthony Sexton
Anthony Sexton is a tax partner in Kirkland’s Chicago office.
The principal focus of Anthony’s practice is representing debtors, creditors, and potential investors in connection with all aspects of in- and out-of-court restructuring transactions, special situations and financings (including liability management transactions), the interpretation and application of tax sharing agreements, and other complex structuring issues.
Anthony has been tax counsel in many of the largest and most complex restructurings in recent years. He has obtained several novel private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service to optimize the tax outcomes for his restructuring clients, has been listed as a “Bankruptcy Tax Specialist in the Nation’s Major Law Firms” by Turnarounds & Workouts since 2018, was listed as a leading lawyer and “noted for his tax work as it relates to bankruptcies and restructurings” since the 2022 edition of Chambers USA, and was recognized by The Legal 500 United States.
Anthony frequently speaks at conferences, writes articles, and participates in the drafting of comment letters regarding the tax matters that are relevant to distressed companies. He is currently a member of the Committee on Government Submissions of the ABA Tax Section, with responsibility for submissions made by the Corporate; Affiliated and Related Corporations; and Tax Collection, Bankruptcy and Workouts Committees. He is an editor of a chapter in Colliers on Bankruptcy Taxation, is a member of the planning committee for the University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference, teaches courses on the taxation of bankrupt companies and general business planning at the University of Chicago Law School, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois. He previously was Chair of the Affiliated and Related Corporations Committee of the ABA Tax Section (2021–2022).
Bob Stack
Bob advises the US companies on a full range of international tax issues and collaborates with Deloitte’s global member firms on international tax developments and initiatives, including those from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
Bob joined Deloitte Tax from the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury), where he was the deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs in the Office of Tax Policy. While there, he worked directly with the assistant secretary of tax policy and the international tax counsel in developing and implementing all aspects of US international tax policy, including treaties, regulations, and legislative proposals.
He also was the official representative of the Obama administration for international tax policy and represented the US government at the OECD where he was involved in all aspects of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative. Prior to joining Treasury, Bob had more than 25 years of experience in international tax matters, representing both corporations and individuals.
Bob is a member of the executive committee of the US Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and a frequent speaker at IFA events worldwide. He a member of the advisory committee for the Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Tax at The George Washington University School of Law. He is a frequent speaker at events sponsored by such organizations as the Tax Executives Institute, the International Bar Association, American Bar Association Tax Section, and Irish Tax Institute. He presented the Twenty-Second Tillinghast Lecture on International Taxation at the New York University School of Law.
Bob earned his Bachelor of Arts in English education from State University of New York at Albany and his Master of Arts in French language and literature from New York University. He went on to obtain his Master of Science in foreign service from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Journal. After graduating, he clerked for Judge Thomas A. Flannery of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Justice Potter Stewart (Ret.) of the United States Supreme Court.
Gordon Warnke
Gordon is the Principal in Charge of KPMG’s Complex Transactions Group and Co-Principal in Charge of WNT M&A Tax group.
Gordon’s primary areas of concentration are U.S. federal income tax considerations relating to domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings, bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy workouts, consolidated returns, and foreign tax credit, basis, earnings and profits and other tax attribute matters. He also has significant experience in the taxation of private equity funds and other collective investment vehicles as well as the taxation of complex financial arrangements and products.
Prior to joining KPMG, Gordon was the U.S. and global head of tax at Linklaters LLP, and, prior to that, the U.S. and global head of tax at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (as well as its predecessor firm, Dewey Ballantine LLP).
Gordon has been recognized in Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and other publications as a leading tax individual in the United States.
Chad Withers
Chad Withers has served as the Chief Tax Officer at Caterpillar Inc since 2018 and has responsibility for income and indirect tax matters for the Caterpillar enterprise in over 90 countries. Chad leads a tax function of over 100 tax professionals located in 12 countries.
Since 2021 he has served as a Co-Chair of the Pillar 2 Business Advisory Group to the OECD. Chad also serves as Co-Chair of the Alliance for Competitive Taxation and as a Vice-Chair of the Tax Committee of the US Council on International Business.
Prior to joining Caterpillar in 2015, he spent 21 years at Procter & Gamble, where he held a variety of tax and finance roles based in the US, China, and Switzerland, including roles in tax planning, compliance, and business unit finance. He earned his master’s degree in Taxation from the University of Cincinnati and his undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from Kenyon College. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Sara B. Zablotney
Sara Zablotney is a tax partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She is widely recognized as one of the top transactional tax lawyers in the country. Her practice is broad-based and encompasses all manner of complex transactions, focusing on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and spin-offs, both domestic and cross-border. She also advises clients on the tax aspects of securities issuances, bankruptcy and restructuring.Chambers USA has praised her as “practical, quick on her feet and proactive” and “extremely knowledgeable with good judgment.” Sara has been recognized by Chambers USA for Tax [NY] from 2017–2023, as a “Rising Star” by Law360 for Tax Law in 2014, and is recommended by The Legal 500 U.S.