Tax & Real Estate specialist, Alan Kennard, resigns from Locke Lord to join Seyfarth Shaw as Senior Counsel

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has  announced the arrival of senior counsel Alan Kennard to the firm’s Corporate department in Chicago.

Kennard joins the firm from the Chicago office of Locke Lord LLP where he served as Chair of the New Markets Tax Credit practice.

Kennard’s practice focuses on Tax, Public Finance and Real Estate. He has substantial experience in federal, international, state and local tax matters involving corporations and partnerships, innovative investment structures and tax-exempt entities, and concentrates on tax credit financing, including new markets tax credits, historic tax credits, low-income housing tax credits and energy tax credits, as well as public finance.

Kennard regularly counsels and represents investors, lenders, community development entities and borrowers on a variety of complex matters, including transactions involving new market tax credits, historic tax credits, low-income housing tax credits, investment tax credits and production tax credits.

A frequent publisher on many tax and real estate issues, Kennard received his B.A. from The Ohio State University and his J.D. from the The Ohio State University, Mortiz College of Law. He is admitted to practice in Illinois, Florida, New York and District of Columbia.