Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
N Jerold Cohen
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
999 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
US
Tel: (1) 404 853 8038
Fax: (1) 404 853 8806
Email: jerry.cohen@sablaw.com
Website: www.sablaw.com
Jerry Cohen is a partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, and represents a number of US
and foreign clients in all aspects of domestic and international tax planning and
controversy matters.
Mr Cohen has been involved in planning and structuring major corporate acquisitions
and dispositions. He has successfully litigated federal and state tax cases and has handled
numerous matters before the Internal Revenue Service, state revenue departments and
the Treasury Department. Mr Cohen has also handled legislative matters for clients, has
testified on a number of occasions before the two Congressional tax writing committees
and has worked with the Joint Committee on Taxation on tax legislative matters.
In 1979, Mr Cohen was appointed by President Carter to serve as chief counsel for the
Internal Revenue Service, a position he held until 1981. That same year, he received the
Commissioner’s Award for outstanding service to the Internal Revenue Service and the
General Counsel of the Treasury’s Award for outstanding service to the Treasury
Department. He is a former chair of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council, of the
American College of Tax Counsel, and of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association.
Mr Cohen is a member of the board of advisers of the Virginia Tax Review, and a past
member of the Little Brown and Commerce Clearing House tax advisory boards. He
served as a member of the board of advisers of the Internal Revenue Service’s continuing
professional education programme, and as a member of the advisory group to the staff of
the Senate Finance Committee on its Subchapter C Revision Act, and is now a member
of the American Law Institute and its tax advisory board. He has served as an adviser to
the institute’s Subchapter C Project, and a consultant to its Tax Integration Project. He is
a member of the board of the American Tax Policy Institute.
Mr Cohen has published in the Journal of Taxation, The Tax Lawyer, Practicing Law
Institute publications, the journal of the American Bar Association publications and the
NYU Tax Institute publications. He has spoken at numerous tax institutes such as the
American Law Institute, Practicing Law Institute, state bar and university tax programmes.
Mr Cohen’s appointments include: Internal Revenue Service advisory counsel (1979 to
1981); chair, ABA Tax Section (1995 to 1996); chair elect, ABA Tax Section (1994 to
1995); former vice-chair and member of council, ABA Section of Taxation; chair,
Formation of Tax Policy Committee, ABA Section of Taxation (1982 to 1986); chair,
Taxation Committee, ABA Section of Litigation (1981 to 1983); chair, Corporate
Stockholder Relationships Committee, ABA Section of Taxation (1977 to 1979); vicechair,
Committee on Taxation, ABA Section of Individual Rights and Human
Responsibilities (1976 to 1979); Adjunct Professor of Law, Emory University (1967 to
1976); former chair and member of the board of regents, American College of Tax
Counsel; board member, American Tax Policy Institute; former chair, International
Revenue Service Advisory Counsel; and member, board of trustees of The American Tax
Policy Institute.
Mr Cohen has been nominated by his peers for inclusion in several publications,
including Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers, Atlanta magazine’s Georgia
Super Lawyers, Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers, An International Who’s Who of
Corporate Tax Lawyers, International Tax Review magazine’s Survey of North America’s Top
Tax Advisers, The National Law Journal’s List of Top Corporate Tax Lawyers, The Best Lawyers
in America, and Marquis Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the South and Southwest.
Mr Cohen graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was book review editor for the
Harvard Law Review.
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