David Mitchell > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
601 LEXINGTON AVENUE
31ST FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10022
NEW YORK
United States

Work Department

Tax

Position

Senior Associate

Career

David is a senior tax associate based in the New York office. His practice focuses on tax issues related to cross-border M&A, structured finance, capital markets and financial products transactions. David also advises non-US financial institutions on US tax compliance matters, including the Department of Justice’s settlement program for Swiss banks, and works with the firm’s dispute resolution lawyers on global investigations involving US tax issues.

Languages

English, French

Education

  • JD, LLM – Taxation, New York University School of Law School.
  • LLB, Osgoode Hall York University, Ontario, Canada.
  • BMath, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Tax > International tax

(Rising stars)

David MitchellFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP supports both US and international clients on major, complex and transformative transactions with knowledge and experience in legal and tax regimes across developing markets. The team advises corporations in several sectors, PE, investment funds and financial institutions on issues such as carve-outs and demergers, joint ventures and partnerships, flotations and group restructuring. Claude Stansbury leads the practice from Washington DC and advises multinational companies and private equity funds on acquisitions, financings, restructurings and disposals. Robert Scarborough operates out of New York with the rest of the team and advises financial institutions on optimizing their global group structure, supply chains, ownership of intangibles and intercompany transactions. Dennis Caracristi focuses on M&A, public and private offerings of stock, debt and other financial products while David Mitchell handles tax issues relating to financial products transactions and capital markets.