2 new (US) tax partners for Fried Frank
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP has announced that seven lawyers have been elected to the partnership of the firm. As of September 1, 2006, the new partners are Michael J. Alter, Craig Arnott, Tommy P. Beaudreau, Brian Kniesly, Brian T. Mangino, Rob McBride, and David L. Shaw.
Two of the seven are tax partners:
Michael J. Alter, an attorney in the Washington DC Tax Department, focuses his practice on federal income taxation, with particular emphasis on the structuring and negotiation of taxable and tax-free corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, spinoffs and dispositions of ongoing business enterprises, the development of partnership and other joint-venture arrangements and tax planning for financings and other capital formation transactions. Mr. Alter joined the firm in 2000. He received his JD, with honors, from George Washington University Law School and his BA, magna cum laude, from Union College. He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts.
Brian Kniesly, an attorney in the New York Tax Department, focuses his practice on taxation issues of hedge funds, real estate transactions, REITS, private equity funds and partnerships. Mr. Kniesly joined the firm in 2001. He received his JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1998 and his BA from Ohio State University in 1992. He is admitted to the bar in New York and Connecticut.