Tax

The tax practice at Steptoe brings clients decades of advisory, transactional, and advocacy experience in federal and state taxation. Clients rely on us for practical and creative solutions to issues that span the spectrum of tax law through all stages of the business lifecycle.

Our team includes an extraordinary group of professionals, including former senior government officials from Congressional offices, the IRS, Treasury, and Justice Department, who have vast experience in sophisticated tax planning, audit, and controversy work. Our clients include some of the world’s largest corporations and tax-exempt organizations, as well as high-net-worth individuals, and we advise them with respect to their most important tax matters.

One of our greatest strenths is our effective advocacy for our clients. We represent them before the IRS, the Treasury Department, the courts, and in Congress, as well as before foreign tax authorities, for example through competent authority proceedings. We advise clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and investment arrangements and draw on our deep understanding of corporate, partnership, and international tax, as well as our extensive experience in evolving judicial practice and procedures, strategy, and tactics.

Widely respected in the field of tax law, our lawyers contribute to its development. We regularly speak on important tax subjects, teach in educational institutions and institutes, author respected texts and articles on tax subjects, and participate in leadership roles in leading tax professional organizations.

Noteworthy

Chambers USA, Tax: Controversy, Nationwide (2008-2024)
Chambers USA, Tax: Corporate & Finance, Nationwide (2009-2024)
Chambers USA, Tax, DC (2006-2024)
Legal 500 US, Tax: US Taxes: Contentious (2009-2024)
Legal 500 US, Tax: International (2011-2024)
Legal 500 US, Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious (2009-2024)
Legal 500 US, Tax: Not-for-Profit (2013-2024)

Professionals

Lauren Azebu

Lauren Azebu focuses her practice on US federal income taxation issues for domestic and international clients, including high-net worth individuals. She regularly advises both US- and foreign-owned...

Partner

Tax, Transactional Tax, International Tax, Private Client

Washington, DC
+1 202 429 3913

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Jasmine M. Campirides

Jasmine Campirides focuses her practice on all areas of trusts and estates law, including personal and tax-driven estate planning, probate and complex estate and trust administration. Her practice has...

Of Counsel

Trusts & Estates, Private Client, Tax, Exempt Organizations

New York
+1 212 506 3940

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John Cobb

John Cobb uses a combination of deep technical knowledge and sound practical judgment to solve clients’ most challenging tax problems. His experience includes transactional planning, policy advocacy...

Of Counsel

Tax, Transactional Tax, Exempt Organizations, Private Client

Washington, DC
+1 202 429 3087

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Micah S. Green

Micah Green advises clients on the full spectrum of legislative, regulatory, compliance, enforcement, and litigation issues, with a particular emphasis on issues affecting capital markets, financial...

Senior Counsel

Government Affairs & Public Policy, Financial Services, Financial Regulatory Compliance & Policy, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Washington, DC
+1 202 429 6290

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Zvi Hahn

Zvi Hahn has a broad tax practice covering international tax planning for US and foreign corporations and individuals, international financing and derivative transactions, financial instruments,...

Partner

Tax, Private Client, International Tax, Trusts & Estates

New York
+1 212 506 3939

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Lawrence Hill

Larry Hill is a tax partner who heads the firm's tax controversy practice. He is one of the nation's preeminent tax litigators and first-chair trial lawyers who focuses his practice on the resolution...

Partner

Tax, Tax Controversies & Litigation, White-Collar Defense, International Tax

New York
+1 212 506 3934

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John Kinchen

John Kinchen is the rare trial lawyer who skillfully navigates between complex commercial litigation and high-stakes white-collar criminal matters. John has developed a national trial practice in both...

Partner

White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations, Commercial Litigation, Tax

Houston
+1 713 221 2345

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Aaron P. Nocjar

Aaron Nocjar's practice focuses on US federal tax issues primarily in the ultra-high-net-worth space, with an emphasis on the taxation of pass-through entities and their investors. In that space, he...

Partner

Tax, Private Client, Transactional Tax, International Tax

Washington, DC
+1 202 429 6211

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Melanie Nussdorf

Melanie Nussdorf advises some of the world's largest financial institutions on fiduciary issues, including prohibited transaction exemption questions under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code,...

Senior Counsel

Government & Regulatory Litigation, Employee Benefits & ERISA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Tax

Washington, DC
+1 202 429 3009

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Nick Sutter

Nick Sutter is a member of Steptoe's Tax and Government Affairs & Public Policy practices who leverages his Capitol Hill experience to advise corporations, trade associations, and nonprofit...

Associate

Tax, Tax Policy, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Campaign Finance & Political Law