I am now a retired principal from PwC’s Washington National Tax Services practice with the Mergers and Acquisitions group, which helps clients evaluate a variety of possible structures, complex international arrangements, and sophisticated financing mechanisms. I have more than 30 years of transactional and tax controversy experience involving domestic and cross-border partnerships, strategy joint ventures and other partnership, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings. In past years, I have represented lessors and lessees in a variety of leasing transactions, addressing issues related to tax ownership, deemed partnerships, the distinction between leases and service contracts, tax-exempt entity and foreign use leasing, and lease re-characterization risks. In recent years, I have represented fund sponsors and institutional investors in respect of the formation of and investment in a wide variety of alternative investment funds.Prior to joining PwC in 2012, I served as the lead tax partner in the global private equity and tax group at Dewey & LeBoeuf, LLP. I began my tax career at King & Spalding in 1990 and was admitted as a partner in 1997.I am a member of the American Bar Association (Taxation Section) and the District of Columbia Bar Association (Taxation Section). I authored the BNA Tax Management Portfolio on Partnership Transactions - Section 751 Property and numerous articles focused on partnership and other topics relevant to the private equity industry.