I am a tax attorney with over fifteen years of experience including:- taxation of domestic & cross-border financial products, transactions in derivatives, e.g., swaps, forward & futures contracts, credit derivatives, options, swaptions; securities lending & repo arrangements - private equity & hedge funds structuring, operations & investments; real property transactions, leveraged equity investments; sale-leaseback transactions; power purchase agreements; tax equity partnerships; tax credit transactions - taxation of transactions and operations of financial institutions- review and negotiations of Master ISDA, MSFTA, MSLA, ISLA, MRA, GMRA; margin/collateral; FATCA/CRS- taxation of U.S. and foreign entities (corporations, partnerships, LLC, trusts, REIT, RIC) - investment tax considerations of U.S. & non-U.S parties including straddle & wash sales rules, constructive sales, constructive ownership, U.S. trade or business /PE, ECI, withholding & reporting, tax treaties, PFIC, FIRPTA, UBTI, - use of derivatives to manage interest, price, FX risks; tax hedging transactions, FX integration - cross-border transactions - equity derivatives (section 871(m)), securities lending and repo arrangements, withholding & reporting obligations - tax planning for U.S. banks/dealers (section 475), U.S. branches of foreign banks, on-/offshore HF, PE funds, REITs, RICs➣ Employment: - New York based investment banks, Big Four, top 10 law firm, insurance company➣ Education: - LL.M. in Taxation - NYU School of Law - LL.M in Comparative Jurisprudence - NYU School of Law - 5-year study of law (J.D. equivalent) - Law School/ Poland ➣ Admitted to New York State Bar ➣ Member of the ABA, NYSBA, SIFMA, ISDA, ACLI