Joanne M. Garvey jumps ship from Heller Ehrman to join Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton

Joanne M. Garvey has joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.  Garvey, a tax partner, was previously with Heller Ehrman in San Francisco.

Guy Halgren, chairman of the firm said  “Joanne is a preeminent tax professional who, like the others, brings her prestigious reputation as well as her legal talent to our practice”

Garvey’s tax practice emphasizes state and local taxation.  She has represented clients in the United States Supreme Court and at all levels of the California court system, as well as in administrative proceedings within and without California.  She argued Barclays Bank v. Franchise Tax Board before the U.S. Supreme Court.  She has testified at legislative and regulatory hearings, including the hearings under U.S.-U.K. Tax Treaty, before the working group for the Presidential Commission on the Unitary tax, and on the California water’s edge legislation.  She is the author of the Tax Management Portfolio Income Taxes: California Water’s Edge Unitary Legislation.  Garvey served in both the American Bar and California Supreme Court commissions on rules for Multijurisdictional Practice.  She is the first recipient of the State Bar Taxation Section’s “Joanne M. Garvey Award” for Lifetime achievement, as well as numerous awards for professional and community service including the prestigious “Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award” by the American Bar Association which honors outstanding women lawyers who have achieved professional excellence in their area of specialty and have actively paved the way to success for others.About Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP 

Sheppard Mullin is a full service AmLaw 100 firm with more than 550 attorneys in 11 offices located throughout California and in New York, Washington, D.C. and Shanghai.  The firm’s California offices are located in Los Angeles, Century City, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Orange County, Santa Barbara, San Diego/Downtown and San Diego/Del Mar.  Founded in 1927 on the principle that the firm would succeed only if its attorneys delivered prompt, high quality and cost-effective legal services, Sheppard Mullin provides legal counsel to U.S. and international clients.  Companies turn to Sheppard Mullin to handle a full range of corporate and technology matters, high stakes litigation and complex real estate, land use and finance transactions.  In the U.S., the firm’s clients include more than half of the Fortune 100 companies