Biography • Corporate Tax

Deborah L Paul focuses the tax aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs and financial instruments. Ms Paul has been the principal tax lawyer on numerous domestic and cross-border transactions, including strategic acquisitions and private equity buyouts, in a wide array of industries, including telecommunications, oil and gas, food, defense and energy. She was elected partner in 2000.

Ms Paul is an active member of the executive committee of the tax section of the New York State Bar Association. Prior to joining the firm in 1997, Ms Paul was an assistant professor at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law (1995-1997) and an acting assistant professor at New York University School of Law (1994-1995). She clerked for Chancellor William T Allen of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (1989-1990).

Ms Paul received an AB from Harvard University in 1986, a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989 and an LLM in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1994.