Richard C. Call focuses his practice on a broad range of state and local tax matters, including litigation, advisory, and transactional work. He represents clients in proceedings before administrative bodies, trial courts, and appellate courts across multiple jurisdictions.

Corporate Income Tax Litigation and Transactions: Richard has significant experience with all major areas of corporate income tax, advising clients on complex issues such as nexus, apportionment, addbacks, transfer pricing, and combination . He represents clients on transfer pricing and alternative apportionment issues in various states, including Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina. He also regularly works with clients to evaluate and efficiently structure state income and franchise tax related to mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.

Sales Taxes and Company Business Models: Richard advises clients on sales tax issues that are affecting their overall business models, helping companies structure transactions to mitigate sales tax exposure, which often results in significant savings. As states increasingly expand the taxation of software, digital products, and services, he assists companies in identifying and managing their exposure to such taxes, particularly in advance of mergers, acquisitions, and other liquidity events.

Personal Income Tax Residency: Richard routinely advises clients on residency for various states, including New York, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois

Speeches and Publications: Richard frequently speaks on state and local tax issues and has presented before organizations such as the NYU SPS Annual Institute on State and Local Taxation, the Council On State Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute, and the Practising Law Institute. He also publishes frequently on state and local tax topics, with articles appearing in several publications, including Tax Notes State, Bloomberg BNA Weekly State Tax Report, Bloomberg BNA Multistate Tax Report, Tax Executive, Journal of State Taxation, Boston Business Journal, and NYU SPS Annual Institute on State and Local Taxation.

Michael Hilkin represents clients in all aspects of complex state and local tax matters. He has a particular focus on tax controversy and transactional issues relating to state and local income, franchise, sales and use, gross receipts, and other business taxes. Michael has extensive experience handling state and local tax issues before US administrative and judicial systems, including arguing cases before state courts and state supreme courts. He also regularly advises clients on personal income tax issues, especially those concerning residency.

Michael frequently speaks on state and local tax issues before the Council on State Taxation, Tax Executives Institute, the New York University Institute on State Taxation, the Paul J. Hartman SALT Forum, and the Institute for Professionals in Taxation.

Highly experienced advocate with 10 US Supreme Court arguments and 100+ appellate and trial court arguments nationwide

Secures major victories across administrative law, intellectual property, immigration, life sciences, securities, transportation, and energy, including landmark Supreme Court cases

Designs and leads high-impact affirmative litigation, often against federal and state agencies to achieve regulatory and policy wins

Handles complex appeals and challenges to government actions

Ted Becker is co-head of McDermott Will & Schulte’s ERISA Litigation practice and a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.  He focuses his practice on litigation under ERISA and related federal and state actions, and defense of government investigations and audits relating to employee benefit, health and welfare, and retirement plans brought by the US Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, and the US Department of Justice. He is a leading voice and nationally recognized practitioner in this complex practice area.

He has represented public and private companies that sponsor employee benefit, health and welfare, and retirement plans governed by ERISA, and their directors and officers and plan fiduciaries, as well as service providers to ERISA plans and plan sponsors. He has extensive experience in Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and has defended some of the highest profile lawsuits involving ESOPs, helping to define the landscape of the evolving law relating to ESOPs.

Ted has a considerable experience in trial and appeals courts, including arguing before the United States Supreme Court and several United States Circuit Courts of Appeals. He also has represented clients in arbitration proceedings. He has represented clients across the full spectrum of litigation, from avoidance, dispute resolution and pre-litigation planning, through dispositive motions, discovery, trial and appeal.

Ted’s clients include a number of Fortune 500 companies. He represents both public and private organizations, as well as non-profit organizations.