Ed is Chair of the firm’s tax practice. He concentrates on all tax aspects of corporate acquisitions and dispositions, both taxable and tax free (including spin-offs). He also advises on recapitalizations, consolidated return matters, net operating loss issues, compensation arrangements (including employment agreements), financial instruments and a large variety of other corporate-shareholder tax matters. Further, he has represented individual and corporate taxpayers in many federal, state and local controversies at all administrative and judicial levels. In addition, he works extensively in the partnership and limited liability company area, especially transactions in the broadcast, private investment, real estate, venture capital, and commodities areas, and transactions involving domestic and foreign joint ventures. Ed has diverse experience in real estate transactions, asset securitizations and tax-exempt organizations and has a wide range of experience in the in-bound and out-bound foreign areas.
Ed has authored articles on partnership allocations, the uses of redeemable preferred stock, joint ventures between taxable and tax-exempt entities, and the consistency requirement of Section 338. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law Graduate LL.M. Program and at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ed is an active member in the American Bar Association, Section of Taxation.