Biography: Corporate Tax

Ms Ferrell is a member of Davis Polk's tax department. Her business transactions practice centers on advice to corporate and private equity fund clients on mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs and other major corporate transactions. She also advises clients on joint ventures, bankruptcy, reorganisations, workouts and tax legislative and administrative matters.

She 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 is listed as a leading tax lawyer in several legal industry publications, including: Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business; Practical Law Company's Cross-border Tax on Corporate Transactions Handbook; Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and The International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers; American Lawyer Media's Corporate Counsel: Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Tax Law; and Legalease's Tax Directors Handbook. Ms Ferrell is a frequent speaker on M&A tax topics, she is a member of the executive committee, taxation section, of the New York State Bar Association.

Ms Ferrell was an associate at Davis Polk between 1990-1997 and was made partner in 1997. She was law clerk to the Honourable Andrew A Caffrey, US District Court, Massachusetts 1981-1982.

Ms Ferrell received her BA from the University of South Carolina in 1978 and her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981. She is the co-founder of the Virginia Tax Review.

Ms Ferrell is admitted to the State of New York, District of Columbia, State of Massachusetts, and the US Tax Court.