Robert P. Rothman advises clients on the tax aspects of a wide range of business transactions, and is particularly experienced in corporate mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, organizations, reorganizations, spin-offs, recapitalizations, redemptions, distributions, liquidations, and other transactions involving both publicly and privately owned corporations. He also has substantial experience in international transactions, partnerships, limited liability companies, S corporations, real estate transactions, consolidated returns, debt restructurings, net operating losses, financial instruments, compensation, original issue discount, tax-exempt organizations and other tax issues. His clients have ranged from individuals and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and major investment banks.
Mr. Rothman received his B.S. in 1978 from Cornell University and his J.D. in 1981 from Columbia Law School, where he served as editor of the Columbia Law Review and was both a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a James Kent Scholar. He is a member of the Corporations Committee and the Reorganizations Committee of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association. He is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court.
Mr. Rothman has written extensively on tax topics. He is co-author of BNA Tax Management Portfolio No. 770, “Structuring Corporate Acquisitions—Tax Aspects,” and in 2003 received a Burton Award for his article “The Least Fun Part of the Job, or, A Tax Lawyer’s Guide to Acquisition Agreements” (published at 55 The Tax Lawyer 711 (Spring 2002)). From February 2005 through June 2007, he was co-author of a bi-monthly column on International Tax Strategies that appeared in Taxes—The Tax Magazine.