Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Felix B Laughlin
Dewey Ballantine LLP
1775 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006-4605
US
Tel: (1) 202 862 1040
Fax: (1) 202 862 1093
Email: flaughlin@deweyballantine.com
Website: www.deweyballantine.com
A partner in the Washington DC office of Dewey Ballantine, Felix Laughlin advises
corporations on tax matters and handles large-case tax controversies before the
Internal Revenue Service and the US federal courts.
For the past 30 years, Mr Laughlin has worked extensively as an advocate on behalf of
Dewey Ballantine’s corporate clients in large-case tax disputes with the IRS. He has
been the lead tax controversy adviser for a number of large US corporations, and has
handled some of the most significant tax cases litigated in recent times. In addition, Mr
Laughlin has been retained by the International Monetary Fund as a consultant on
international legal reform, and assisted the government of Indonesia in drafting new
guidelines to facilitate mergers and acquisitions there.
He recently co-hosted (with Mark Allison) a continuing legal education programme
on the IRS’s current alternative dispute resolution programmes. His most recent
published articles on tax-related topics are “Accounting Methods – Which Retroactive
‘Corrections’ Require IRS Consent?” (56 ABA Tax Lawyer 103, 2002, with Kathleen
Dale); and “The IRS Reorganization: Programs and Initiatives of the New Large Case
Division” (53 Administrative Law Review 679, 2001, with Mark Allison).
Mr Laughlin became a partner at Dewey Ballantine in 1975. In the early 1970s, he
practised in Dewey Ballantine’s New York office, and in 1974, he opened the firm’s
Washington DC office. Before joining Dewey Ballantine, Mr Laughlin served in several
senior positions in the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service, where he had
policy and technical responsibility for corporate transactions (including reorganizations,
redemptions, incorporations and liquidations) and tax accounting issues.
Mr Laughlin received his LLM degree in taxation from Georgetown University Law
Center in 1971, and a JD degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in
1967 where he was an editor of the Tennessee Law Review. He is a past chairman of the
Tax Section of the Federal Bar Association.
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