Yomarie Habenicht > Proskauer Rose LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile

Proskauer Rose LLP
1001 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, N.W.
SUITE 600 SOUTH
WASHINGTON, DC 20004-2533
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Work Department

Tax

Position

Yomarie “Jo” Habenicht is an associate in Proskauer’s Tax Department, specializing in U.S. federal, corporate, partnership and international tax matters.

Jo focuses her practice on tax structuring and planning for a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, cross-border transactions, restructurings, bankruptcy related transactions and joint ventures.

Her practice also includes providing day-to-day tax advice to domestic and foreign companies on a broad range of tax issues. Jo represents companies before the Internal Revenue Service and local tax authorities on tax examinations.

A co-chair of the Proskauer Women’s Alliance Steering Committee, Jo was selected to be a Protégée for Proskauer’s Women’s Sponsorship Program, an initiative that champions high-performing mid-level and senior lawyers as emerging leaders.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Jo worked in the tax services department of a Big 4 accounting firm. She is fluent in Spanish.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Tax > International tax

Proskauer Rose LLP advises on cross-border structuring issues such as withholding tax, permanent establishment risk, transfer pricing consideration, asset and business migrations, anti-deferral regimes, and tax treaty benefit. Team lead Amanda Nussbaum, who sits in the New York office, has significant expertise in structuring tax free and taxable mergers and acquisitions as well as taxation in the sports industry. Also located in New York, David Miller has considerable experience handling matters relating to the taxation of financial products, lending transactions, M&A, hedge funds, and HNWI, in both a domestic and international context whilst Martin Hamilton advises on cross-border investments and structured financing arrangements, and tax-efficient corporate financing techniques. In Los Angeles, Robert Friedman’s practice covers tax advice on public and private mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, private equity fund formation, financial products, and electric and gas utility tax issues. In Boston, Stephen Severo represents corporate, private equity and investment fund clients in connection with all tax-related aspects of their businesses. At the associate level, New York-based Kathleen Semanski and Washington DC-based Yomarie Habenicht, who both advise on a wide range of cross-border transactions, and Boston-based Philip Lenertz, who has particular strengths in the funds space, are notable team members.