Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP offers a comprehensive transactional tax service to leading asset management firms, private equity funds, corporations, real estate investment trusts, and investment banks, among other clients, with a particularly strong reputation for handling multibillion-dollar fund mandates. Alan Kaden in Washington DC, with broad experience handling taxable and tax-free corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-offs, joint ventures, and investment fund structuring, chairs the practice alongside New York-based David Shapiro, well known for advising fund sponsors on fund formation and M&A. Michael Alter, co-managing partner of the DC office, represents both public and private companies as well as private equity in firms in connection with mergers, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, and securities offerings. Robert Cassanos in New York advises private equity and hedge funds operating in the fixed income and real estate spaces, while DC’s Michelle Gold specializes in federal income taxation, focusing on partnership transactions involving investment fund sponsors. New York-based Joseph Fox’s practice encompasses the tax issues in capital markets, financing, and derivatives transactions, as well as asset management matters. Shane Hoffmann in Washington DC focuses on taxable and tax-free acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-offs, and dispositions of ongoing enterprises. Rodney Hill in DC was promoted to partner in March 2023.