Press Release
Richard Leavy Joins Mayer Brown Rowe Maw's New York Office as Firm Expands its State and Local Tax Practice
May 7, 2007 - New York - Mayer Brown Rowe Maw LLP is pleased to announce that Richard Leavy, 36, has joined the firm as partner in the New York Tax Transactions Practice. Mr. Leavy brings 10 years of transactional tax structuring and planning experience to the firm, and represents a significant expansion of the firm's state and local tax practice.
"Richard has extensive experience in the representation of taxpayer interests and in the structuring, negotiation and oversight of complex multi-jurisdictional transactions," commented Brian Trust, partner-in-charge at Mayer Brown Rowe Maw's New York office. "His industry expertise and knowledge should significantly benefit our clients as we expand our state and local tax practice and deepen our expertise in tax planning and tax controversy."
As tax partner in the New York office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Mr. Leavy was charged with helping strategic and institutional investors in planning for the acquisition, ownership, syndication and disposition of real property, financial, and operational investments, with a particular emphasis on the state and local tax aspects thereof. A significant component of his practice was to advise prospective recipients of state, local, tax and economic development incentives. Additionally, Mr. Leavy worked in the state and local tax controversy practice representing taxpayer interests under audit, before administrative review panels, in formal and informal hearings and before tax courts and courts of general jurisdiction.
Mr. Leavy began his legal career in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in New Jersey, where he was an intern during his third year of law school to the Honorable Leonard I. Garth, senior circuit judge. He then continued on to Hutton, Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Caroll & Bertolotti in New York where he garnered the foundation for his tax and transaction expertise.
"Mayer Brown Rowe Maw's tax transaction practice has a rich tradition of providing the best strategic and tactical counsel to their high-profile clients," said Mr. Leavy. "I'm excited to join this respected and well-established team and look forward to working with the firm as it grows its state and local tax group."
In 1992, Mr. Leavy graduated with departmental honors from Rutgers College with a B.A. in political science. He also received his J.D. from Rutgers in 1996, where he was awarded the Alumni Senior Prize, and went on to the New York University School of Law to receive his LL.M. in taxation. Since 1998, Mr. Leavy has also served as a part-time law lecturer at Rutgers School of Law where he teaches state and local taxation.
Mayer Brown Rowe Maw's tax transaction practice covers every aspect of corporate, partnership, and individual taxation in the United States and in Europe, including taxation of cross-border transactions and state and local issues. It comprises specialized sub-practices in transactions, consulting and planning, audits, administrative appeals and litigation and government relations. Clients include 65 of the Fortune 100 companies.
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