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Winston & Strawn LLP
35 WEST WACKER DRIVE
CHICAGO, IL 60601-9703
ILLINOIS
United States
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Work Department

Tax

Position

Donald Goff – Tax Attorney | Winston & Strawn

Don Goff concentrates his practice on all aspects of corporate and partnership transactions, specifically structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions for public and private buyers and sellers, financial institutions, and private equity funds.

Don has broad experience with structuring and negotiating hundreds of M&A transactions, while focusing on tax efficiencies and bridging gaps between divergent positions. Notably, many of Don’s private equity transactions utilize pre-closing or post-closing restructurings, allowing buyers and sellers to meet their objectives, while minimizing tax inefficiencies.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious

Winston & Strawn LLP’s Chicago-based transactional tax team handles a wide range of matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, securitizations, fund formations, and financing transactions, with a particularly strong reputation for advising middle-market private equity funds and SBICs. Practice head Olga Loy focuses on private equity, venture capital, and SBIC fund formation as well as M&A transactions, buyouts, recapitalizations, restructurings, and executive compensation cases. Dennis Kelly specializes in real estate and municipal finance taxation as well as securitization-related tax issues. Donald Goff has considerable experience structuring M&A and private equity transactions, many of the latter involving pre- or post-closing restructurings. Mark Christy is strong in the structured finance and project finance spaces. Angela Rohman-Russo plays a key role in the group, advising on mergers, divestitures, restructurings, and recapitalizations.