The Bingham tax group is a destination for many sophisticated businesses. Clients come to us when they face complex or particularly significant tax planning or controversy issues. They continue to rely on us as tax counsel because they appreciate the depth of our technical acumen, the breadth of our experience, the currency of our market knowledge, and our commitment to help them responsibly and legally minimize tax liability without exposing them to undue risk.
What makes us different?
- Balanced perspective. Our tax planners are integral to our controversy practice and vice versa. As a result, our technical tax lawyers have the perspective to anticipate how the forest will look in the hindsight of a tax examination, and conversely, our controversy lawyers don’t lose their bearings when they have to descend deep in the technical trees of complex transactions.
- Extraordinary technical understanding in a range of critical areas. In certain areas, we literally wrote the book.
- Experience, both deep and broad. For decades, we have represented sophisticated and demanding clients across a variety of industries and transactions.
- Results. Clients know that our added value shows in the bottom line.
Focused Advice
Tax Planning. Sophisticated clients seek out Bingham when the issues at stake are material and complex.
Tax Controversy. Businesses turn to Bingham when they face significant tax controversy and litigation issues.
Industry Experience
What does the market say?
Major institutions, across industries, look to us as the preferred choice for high-stakes tax planning and controversy matters. Chambers USA gives us high marks in both tax controversy and tax planning.
Practice History
Our tax group has a long history of leadership in the tax arena.
When tax professionals think of law firms, the name Bingham may not leap to mind — yet. But they likely know our lawyers and have relied, in the past, on Bingham tax partners, either directly for advice or indirectly when they referred to, or cited, thought-leading books, articles and speeches authored by Bingham tax partners.
In 2009, McKee Nelson LLP combined with Bingham. Prior to the combination, McKee Nelson’s tax group was regarded as one of the most robust and effective tax practices in the United States. McKee Nelson’s tax practice earned its reputation without the support of a full service transaction practice. Rather, it was a destination for clients who were otherwise well-represented, but who valued the group’s tax planning and controversy counsel enough to seek it out.
While not as well known, the legacy Bingham tax practice fully served the firm’s transaction clients and rightly claimed best-in-class status in areas in which McKee Nelson lacked particular visibility, including tax credit transactions, project financing, real estate, and Massachusetts state and local tax.
The combination of these tax practices and the accessibility of Bingham’s full complement of transaction and regulatory lawyers to the legacy McKee Nelson tax practice created a powerful resource for clients seeking best-in-class tax counsel.
At present, 14 Bingham tax partners are ranked in Chambers. Bill McKee and Will Nelson (and Gary Huffman in the latest edition) are co-authors of a treatise that for 30 years has been the leading treatise on partnership tax. Will and Bill are also joined by Joe Garcia as co-author of the leading treatise on drafting partnership agreements. In addition, our tax lawyers speak and write prolifically on tax subjects. Seven are currently adjunct professors, teaching graduate tax subjects, at major law schools.
Our lawyers include a former Chief Counsel for the IRS, a former Chief of Staff of the Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, a former Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, and two partners who served as the Treasury Department’s Tax Legislative Counsel. Ten others have also held responsible positions in the IRS or the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. This combined government experience provides invaluable perspective.