Clients note that Jones Day has ‘decades of experience in state and local tax controversy’, though it is also highly active at federal level in criminal and civil matters. Kathryn Keneally in New York takes point on tax controversy matters. A former Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Tax Division, she is currently handling a case described by the government as the largest tax case ever brought against an individual. Keneally was recently joined in the New York office by Justin Campolieta, who brings great experience as an IRS trial attorney. Charles Hodges, a prominent adviser on federal tax controversy at all administrative and judicial levels, and John Allan, who has ’unsurpassed knowledge of issues and state policymaker players’, are the key contacts in Atlanta.
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‘Decades of experience in state and local tax controversy.’
‘John Allan - unsurpassed knowledge of issues and key state policy maker players.’
'Kathy Keneally and Chuck Hodges are extremely professional, top-flight lawyers from every perspective. Best of the best.'
‘Unique in that they deal with exactly what our tax case was about.’
‘Chuck Hodges and his team were great to work with.’
Key clients
- Jackson Investment Group, LLC (JIG)
- Parkway Gravel, Inc.
- Mayo Clinic
Work highlights
- Representing the estate of a former high-profile tech company CEO, Robert Brockman, before the United States Tax Court and in various civil tax matters in connection with an offshore trust structure.
- Representing individuals pro bono in a precedent-setting matter in which a U.S. appellate court held for the first time that section 6213(a) of the Internal Revenue Code is not jurisdictional, allowing taxpayers to argue for equitable tolling of late-filed petitions before the U.S. Tax Court.
- Represented a real estate conglomerate whereby the IRS challenged a section 1031 like kind exchange transaction on the grounds of sham, economic substance, and “conduit” theory claiming that these doctrines should cause the like-kind exchange to be recharacterized.
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Practice head
Kathryn Keneally
Other key lawyers
Justin Campolieta; Charles Hodges; John Allan