Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Peter C Canellos
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
US
Tel: (1) 212 403 1241
Fax: (1) 212 403 2241
Email: pcanellos@wlrk.com
Website: www.wlrk.com
Peter C Canellos practises in the tax department of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. He
is responsible for the tax aspects of the corporate acquisitions, dispositions and financings
that constitute the firm’s major practice areas. These large and complex transactions
frequently involve multinational tax considerations.
After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1967, Mr Canellos clerked for the
honourable Judge Charles D Breitel of the New York Court of Appeals and was a
Fulbright scholar at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Mr Canellos has
served as chairman of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, and is a
frequent writer and lecturer on tax matters. His published articles include
“Contingency and the Debt/Equity Continuum” (with Deborah Paul, Journal of
Financial Products, 2002); “A Tax Practitioner’s Perspective on Substance, Form and
Business Purpose in Structuring Business Transactions and in Tax Shelters” (SMU Law
Review, 2001); “Reasonable Expectations and the Taxation of Contingencies” (Tax
Lawyer, 1997); “Dividend Access Shares” (49th IFA Congress, Cannes, 1995); and
“Corporate Inversions and Similar Transactions” (54th NYU Annual Institute on Federal
Taxation, 1995). Mr Canellos served as general report on the subject of international
mergers and acquisitions at the 2005 congress of the International Fiscal Association.
Mr Canellos is a graduate of Columbia University, where he earned his bachelor’s
degree summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also attended
Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of Law Review, and received his
LLB magna cum laude.
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