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Lee Allison

Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Lee Allison’s practice encompasses the United States federal income tax aspects of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged acquisitions; private equity, venture capital and mezzanine debt fund formations; private equity and venture capital investments; and securities offerings. He has also worked on matters involving the restructuring of financially distressed companies. More recently, Lee has been advising clients on the tax implications of legislation passed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, including the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the CARES Act.
Memberships
New York State Bar Association, Member of the Executive Committee – Co-Chair of Treaties and Intergovernmental Agreements and former Co-Chair of “Inbound” U.S. Activities of Foreign Taxpayers
Education
- JD, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, 1997; Managing Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
- BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions