Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Martin D Pollack
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10153
US
Tel: (1) 212 310 8461
Fax: (1) 212 310 8007
Email: martin.pollack@weil.com
Website: www.weil.com
Martin D Pollack is one of the two chairmen of the firm’s Global Tax practice and is
nationally recognized in federal income tax matters. He has extensive experience in the
structuring and documentation of private equity and merger and acquisition
transactions and he regularly advises clients on the formation and operation of private
equity funds and other investment vehicles. His practice also involves the tax aspects
of bankruptcy and insolvency, leasing transactions, and planning for technology
intensive enterprises.
Mr Pollack is a frequent lecturer at tax seminars and the author of numerous articles
on federal income tax issues. He is the co-author of a treatise published by Little
Brown, analyzing the federal income, estate, gift and other transfer tax consequences
of partnership buy/sell agreements.
He has served as an adjunct associate professor of tax law at the New York University
School of Law; he is a member of the advisory boards of Tax Management and the
Equipment Leasing Newsletter; and he is a subcommittee chair in the Partnerships and
LLCs Committee of the American Bar Association tax section.
Mr Pollack was named as one of the New York area’s best lawyers in the July 3 2006
issue of New York magazine. He was also selected for inclusion in the 2006 and 2007
editions of The Best Lawyers in America. He is listed as highly recommended for tax law
by PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2006 and is recognized as a leading tax lawyer by
Chambers USA 2006 America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Mr Pollack was also named to
the 2006 list of New York Super Lawyers.
Mr Pollack is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1976), where
he served on the board of officers of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the
Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a BA (1973) and a graduate degree in
economics (1973), and the New York University School of Law, where he earned a
graduate degree in taxation (1979). He joined the firm in 1976.
298 Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers