Profile: Dana L Trier
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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: | dana.trier@dpw.com |
Corporate Tax
Biography: Corporate Tax
Mr Trier is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell's tax department. His practice focuses on corporate finance, derivatives, structured finance, leasing and other complex financial transactions. He also has extensive experience in domestic and international tax planning for corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs and private equity investments, and has done a significant amount of work involving novel executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements and insurance products. In addition to his tax planning practice, Mr Trier represents clients on ruling and legislative matters and in tax controversies.He served as tax legislative counsel and acting deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for tax policy in the Treasury Department in 1988 and 1989.
Mr Trier joined Davis Polk as a partner in 1998.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana University in 1970, did graduate work in history and international affairs at Princeton University, and in 1974 received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was associate editor and note editor of the Michigan Law Review.
He was formerly chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation, and on the executive committee of the Taxation Section of the New York State Bar Association. He is a member of the Bar in New York and the District of Columbia.
Mr Trier is listed in Chambers USA (2005), Chambers Global - Leaders in Their Field (2005-06) and The Best Lawyers in America (2006).
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.