David D. Sherwood focuses his practice on a broad range of domestic tax issues affecting corporations, joint ventures and their owners, including the tax treatment of spin-offs and other restructurings, consolidated returns, the availability of deductions on the worthlessness or other disposition of stock, and the formation of investment partnerships, real estate partnerships, corporate joint ventures and multinational group internal partnerships.
Results
- Advised a multinational client on a spin-off, including drafting of tax sharing agreement
- Structured the formation of a privately held investment fund with approximately $250 million of equity capital
- Advised a client on the availability of an ordinary worthless stock deduction on the stock of a subsidiary with multiple classes of stock owned by minority shareholders
Recognitions
- BTI Client Service All-Star 2017
Capabilities and industries
Regional markets
Community
- American Bar Association
- District of Columbia Bar
Credentials
Education
- Harvard Law School, JD, cum laude
- Harvard University, MA, Economics
- Columbia University, BA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- California
Courts / Agencies
- US Tax Court
- US Court of Federal Claims
- US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit