The Tax Controversy & Litigation practice regularly deals with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and state taxing authorities in resolving tax disputes and cases. We have successfully handled a wide variety of tax disputes at the federal, state and local tax levels.

Our tax litigation representations include diverse industries involving a wide array of substantive tax issues in the areas of income, estate and gift, excise, employment tax and the tax-exempt arena. Our attorneys are often required to apply complex tax law provisions to facts arising out of highly specialized areas such as transfer pricing, business valuation, complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and real estate. In preparing cases, we work closely with in-house specialists as well as with private sector and academic consultants and expert witnesses. We work in a fully integrated fashion with our clients' in-house counsel and tax directors and take pride in understanding and achieving our clients' tax disputes goals. Our Tax Controversy & Litigation practice’s ability to realistically evaluate litigation hazards has led to extraordinarily favorable settlements for clients at the examination and IRS Appeals levels and pretrial settlements.

In addition to representing clients in tax litigation, we frequently counsel our clients regarding tax procedures, such as reporting and disclosure requirements, the avoidance or abatement of tax penalties, privileges, summons enforcement and discovery. We also represent clients involved in criminal tax investigations advising at the entity, senior management or outside advisor level during the grand jury process, indictment and post-indictment.