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Overview

David is a partner in the Taxation Service Group and the Corporate Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on a broad range of transactional, tax planning and tax controversy matters. David has extensive experience in creating and implementing tax-efficient structures for all types of domestic and cross border transactions, including business start-ups, private equity, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions, restructurings, executive compensation and corporate finance matters.

As a former State Tax Auditor, David has significant experience in representing taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service and state and local taxing agencies. His representation includes, audit defense, appealing and negotiating proposed assessments, tax litigation, negotiating and entering into voluntary disclosure agreements and obtaining federal and state private letter rulings. In addition, he frequently counsels local and multi-state business on all aspects of state and local taxation. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

David writes and speaks on a variety of tax related topics, and recent articles include, "Tax Aspects of Payments Made by Guarantors and Joint Obligors," and "Tax Aspects of Developing, Selling and Licensing Intellectual Property." During law school, he was the Business Managing Editor of the John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law and had an article published in the journal entitled, "State and Local Taxing Authorities: Taking More Than Their Fair Share of the Electronic Information Age" (1996).

David was appointed to the Advisory Board of the John Marshall Law School's LL.M. (Taxation) Program and is also an adjunct professor in the LL.M. program where he teaches partnership taxation, one of its required courses.

David was named as one of the "40 Attorneys Under 40" by the Illinois Law Bulletin in 2007.