Zack represents clients on state and local tax and federal excise tax controversy and planning, compliance, and transactional matters.
Pillsbury partner Craig Becker resolves state and local tax (SALT) issues, focusing on property taxes, transaction taxes, gross receipts taxes, excise taxes, income taxes and employment taxes. He litigates ongoing tax controversies at both the administrative and judicial levels, helps minimize tax exposure in purchase and sale transactions, and assists clients in managing audits and compliance risks.
Joshua Becker is a Corporate and Tax partner and trusted advisor to founders, emerging companies, investment funds and family offices.
Baylee Beeman focuses her practice on corporate tax matters.
Bill Bonano leads Pillsbury’s Federal Tax Controversy & Tax Policy practice. His practice focuses on international and domestic tax planning and representing taxpayers involved in federal and state controversy matters.
Nora Burke focuses her practice on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, lending transactions and securities offerings for both domestic and international clients, as well as general tax issues faced by both businesses and individuals.
Jack Camillo advises clients on a variety of state and local tax matters, including multistate litigation, planning, audit defense, and controversy issues.
Aruna Chittiappa advises clients on a variety of corporate state and local tax matters, including multistate litigation, planning, audit defense, and controversy issues.
Julie Divola’s practice focuses on corporate and partnership taxation, with particular emphasis on U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and restructurings.
Eugenie Dubin represents clients in civil litigation and regulatory matters and advises on the tax aspects of complex financial transactions.
Kelly counsels individuals and families with respect to wealth transfer planning, including charitable giving and estate, gift, generation-skipping and income tax planning.
Elizabeth Fry advises on all manner of estate planning and probate issue, and leads Pillsbury’s New York Trusts & Estates practice.
Based in Washington, DC, Pillsbury senior counsel James Grosser has deep experience in legal and tax aspects of partnership and LLC transactions.
From planning through appellate litigation, Evan Hamme advises clients on all areas of state and local taxation, including income, franchise, excise, sales and use tax.
Tom Hill, a partner in Pillsbury’s Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense practice, focuses his national practice on white-collar criminal and government enforcement matters and internal corporate investigations.
Ashley focuses her practice on estate and tax planning, and works on business transactional matters, including entity formation and limited liability company agreements.
Peter Hunt, a New York-based Pillsbury partner, is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a leader in employee benefits and executive compensation law.
Pillsbury partner Mark Jones is a recognized authority in the design and administration of compensation and benefit programs for senior executives and other employees.
Ryan has experience assisting clients in all aspects of compensation, including advising on the design, implementation and administration of companies’ equity and equity-based incentive programs, cash incentive plans, Section 409A compliance and other tax considerations related to executive compensation arrangements. Ryan has worked with a variety of clients, from early-stage startup companies to large public companies.
Nolan Kessler advises clients on all aspects of state and local tax matters.
Jim Klein has advised major international organizations on compensation and benefit matters for over 40 years.
Mike Kosnitzky, co-leader of the firm’s Private Client & Family Office practice, advises some of the world's most well-respected individuals, families and privately held businesses, using a holistic risk-assessment approach to the law.
Colleen Lamarre, named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list, concentrates her practice on employee benefits (ERISA) and executive compensation matters. She advises employers regarding the design, documentation, compliance and administration of retirement, health and welfare plans.
Mark Leeds focuses his practice on the tax consequences of a variety of financial products and strategies, including digital assets, private funds, exchange-traded funds, litigation finance, life settlement, banking and insurance.
Josephine Lo has extensive experience advising on complex tax, business, economic development and affordable housing-related matters.
Bob Logan, a special counsel in Pillsbury’s Tax practice, provides tax counsel covering a wide range of corporate, partnership and exempt organization tax issues.
In addition to his lengthy legal career, Don also has practiced as a certified public accountant, which gives him added insight into the tax accounting and reporting challenges faced by clients.
Jessica Lutrin is the leader of Pillsbury's Executive Compensation & Benefits practice. She has broad executive compensation and benefits experience spanning transactional, counseling and advisory matters.
Jennifer Jordan McCall, co-leader of both the Private Client & Family Office and the Litigation – Trusts, Estates and High Net Worth teams, is a leading authority on U.S. and international gift and estate planning.
Laura McDaniels advises clients on compensation and benefits issues that arise in both day-to-day operations and during transformative events.
Robert Merten III works out of the Sacramento office as a Counsel for the firm’s State and Local Tax (SALT) Team.
Ivan Mitev advises clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and hedge funds, cross-border investments, and real estate investments, with a subspecialty in partnership and international taxation.
Kimberly Moore's practice focuses primarily on multifamily real estate investment and finance law, with emphasis on complex, multiparty transactions. She represents major institutional investors through all stages of tax-driven real estate investments.
Dawn Murphy advises nonprofit organization clients on a wide variety of legal matters, including governance, tax, regulatory compliance, antitrust, intellectual property, contract and transactions.
Richard Nielsen advises and represents clients, both corporate and individual, at the administrative and judicial levels in various sales, use, income and property tax disputes.
Jeffrey Phang is based in the Sacramento office, with a focus on state and local tax controversy.
Pillsbury partner Harsha Reddy concentrates on international tax matters and advises a global clientele on a variety of tax issues.
Christy Richardson focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, 401(k) plans and health and welfare benefit programs.
Carley Roberts, leader of Pillsbury’s State and Local Tax practice, advises Fortune 100 and industry-leading companies on all aspects of state and local tax matters. Her clients comprise a variety of industries, including energy, technology, telecommunications, media, retail and manufacturing.
Breann Robowski focuses on state and local tax controversy work with an emphasis on property tax and transfer tax. She is a member of Pillsbury's Global Real Estate & Construction Industry Team, a leading member of Pillsbury’s Attorneys of Color Committee, a member of Planning Committee for the Wichita Property Tax Conference, and a 2021-2022 board member of the California Alliance of Taxpayer Advocates.
Lawrence (Larry) Sannicandro focuses his practice on a broad range of federal and state tax disputes affecting individual private clients as well as their estates, trusts, and businesses (both public and private). These disputes cover the full range of civil and criminal tax matters, including audits and examinations, administrative appeals, collection matters, summons proceedings, grand jury subpoenas, criminal tax investigations and prosecutions, litigation before the United States Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, federal district and appellate courts and state tax tribunals.
Kristen Sharp advises clients on a variety of state and location taxation issues with a primary focus on property tax and transfer tax matters.
Caitlin Stulberg represents companies (ranging from startup to Fortune 10) on formation, venture and seed financings, general corporate matters and transactions ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion.
Christine Tsai focuses her practice on advising entities and high-net-worth individuals in all aspects of tax planning and litigation.
Jeff Vesely's award-winning practice focuses on state and local tax matters, including income, franchise, sales and use gross receipts and other taxes.
Located in Pillsbury’s Silicon Valley office, Brian Wainwright has more than 35 years of experience in domestic and international tax planning for business and financial transactions.
Amber advises public and private companies on a broad spectrum of employee benefits and executive compensation matters.
Laura Watts advises public and private companies on federal income tax issues arising in corporate transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, and restructurings), and represents companies in private letter ruling requests and controversy matters before the IRS.
Jennifer Wong focuses her practice on employee benefits, with an emphasis on health and welfare benefit plans and retirement plans.
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