Mr David R. Tillinghast
Mr David R. Tillinghast
Baker & McKenzie LLP, New York
David R. Tillinghast is a partner in the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. He represents a broad spectrum of U.S. and foreign companies, both publicly and privately held. His practice includes the tax aspects of domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, investment funds, joint ventures and leasing, project and other types of financings, as well as transfer pricing and related issues.
He has also served as Reporter for the American Law Institute project on the international aspects of U.S. income taxation, as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers of the American Bar Association, and as Chairman of the Committee on Taxation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
He has published a book entitled Tax Aspects of International Transactions and prepared the chapter entitled: “Tax Considerations in Merging or Acquiring U.S. Enterprises” in the Handbook of International Mergers and Acquisitions.
He was formerly Special Assistant for International Tax Affairs (the position presently titled International Tax Counsel) of the United States Department of the Treasury.
The National Law Journal reported that he “is generally regarded by his peers as the country’s top international tax lawyer”. In 1996, the New York University School of Law Masters Program in International Taxation established in his honor the David R. Tillinghast Lectures on International Taxation.
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