Kirkland & Ellis promotes 4 new tax partners
Kirkland & Ellis has announced 80 new partners globally, effective 1 October.
These include 4 tax partners:
JoAnne Mulder Nagjee – Chicago
Her practice focuses on all aspects of tax controversies, including IRS audits, IRS appeals and litigation. JoAnne also advises clients on the tax aspects of complex business transactions.
JoAnne maintains an active pro bono practice, including helping immigrant victims of violent crimes obtain temporary legal status, work eligibility and a path to permanent residency. She was awarded Pro Bono Service Awards in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 for her work at Kirkland on behalf of pro bono clients.
Ilan Napchan – Chicago
His practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts, as well as joint ventures, recapitalizations, and debt and equity restructurings.
Dulcie Sawle Daly – London
Dulcie Sawle Daly is a tax partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Dulcie focuses on UK and international tax planning and provides tax-related advice in the context of cross-border private equity and M&A transactions and private fund structuring. Dulcie also has experience in the tax aspects of finance and real estate transactions.
Benjamin Panter – New York
Benjamin Panter is a partner in the Firm’s Tax Department and member of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group. His practice focuses on advising private and public companies, private equity funds, senior executives and entrepreneurs on a wide variety of executive compensation matters, including structuring and implementing management equity arrangements and incentive equity and cash bonus plans.
He counsels clients on benefits and compensation matters arising in a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, restructurings, debt and equity offerings and bankruptcies, the treatment of stock options and other equity awards, change-in-control and “golden parachute” tax issues, severance obligations and other related issues. He has an active practice representing compensation committees, chief executive officers and other senior corporate executives in the negotiation and structuring of executive employment and severance agreements, and frequently represents management teams in private equity deals and other mergers and acquisition transactions. His practice also involves advising on the laws governing non-competes, employee classification and compliance with IRC Section 409A, IRC Section 162(m) and Item 402 of Regulation S-K.