Profile: Kathleen L Ferrell
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Law Firm: | Davis Polk & Wardwell |
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| Office: |
Davis Polk & Wardwell 450 Lexington Avenue 10017 |
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| City: | New York | |
| State: | New York | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 212 450 4000 | |
| Fax: | +1 212 450 3800 | |
| Email: | kathleen.ferrell@dpw.com |
Corporate Tax
Biography: Corporate Tax
Kathleen L Ferrell is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell's tax department. Her business transactions practice centres on advice to corporate and private equity fund clients on mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and other major corporate transactions. She also advises clients on legislative and administrative tax matters.
Ms Ferrell served in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy from 1987 to 1990, as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel and as the special assistant to the assistant secretary of tax policy. Ms Ferrell returned to Davis Polk in 1990 and became a partner in 1997.
Ms Ferrell graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of South Carolina in 1978 and in 1981 received her JD from the University of Virginia, where she was the co-founder of the Virginia Tax Review. She clerked for the Honourable Andrew A Caffrey, Chief Judge, US District Court, District of Massachusetts, from 1981 to 1982.
Ms Ferrell is a frequent speaker on M&A tax topics and an active member of the taxation section of the New York State Bar Association, where she is currently serving as co-chair of the corporations committee. She is a member of the Bar in New York and the District of Columbia.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.