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Biography
Judy has been engaged in a broad-based income tax practice in which she has advised corporate and individual clients with respect to various aspects of business income taxation. Her principal areas of practice are business transactions and domestic and international tax planning. She has represented both public and privately-held companies, including private equity funds, in a number of significant business transactions, corporate spin-offs and other divestitures and purchases and sales of partnerships and S corporations.
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Experience
- Assisted in tax planning for the purchase by a non-U.S. corporation of a major multinational operating division of a U.S. publicly held corporation
- Assisted in tax planning for the sale of the non-U.S. oil and gas operations of a publicly held corporation
- Assisted in tax planning for an outbound reorganization of a multinational group of companies
- Assisted in tax planning for the reorganization of a group of non-U.S. operating subsidiaries of a major U.S. corporation
- Obtained private rulings from the Internal Revenue Service for public companies and closely held corporations including for transactions involving section 355 spinoffs and tax-free corporate reorganizations
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Activities and Affiliations
- Listed: Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers in tax law, 2006; The Best Lawyers in America in tax law, 2003-2007; "2005 World Tax Review," named a leading tax lawyer, International Tax Review, 2005; "Texas Super Lawyer" in tax law, Texas Monthly, 2004-2006
- Member: American Bar Association Section of Taxation; Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties; Co-Chair: Subcommittee on Current Developments, State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association; International Fiscal Association, Houston International Tax Forum, Houston Tax Roundtable
- Co-Author: "Issues Paper on the Tax Treaty Making Process," The Tax Lawyer Vol. 46, No. 2 (Winter 1993); "Structuring Real Estate Investments by and with Foreign, Pension and Tax Exempt Investors," Tax Management Real Estate Journal, Vol. 15, No. 9 (September 1999)
- Collaborator: articles on international tax issues, including "United States Federal Income Taxation of Foreign Investment in Oil and Gas Properties," Houston Journal of International Law 263 (1987)
- Speaker: American Bar Association Section of Taxation; New York University Institute on Federal Taxation; Houston Bar Association Section of Taxation; Dallas Bar Association Section of Taxation; Tax Executive's Institute; International Fiscal Association; Texas-Mexico Bar Association; University of Texas School of Law's Taxation Conference; Parker Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference
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Education and Professional Background
- University of Houston, B.B.A. summa cum laude, 1984 (Beta Alpha Psi)
- University of Houston Law Center, J.D. cum laude, 1987 (Order of the Barons; Order of the Coif)
- Admitted to practice: Texas, 1987
- Admitted to Practice, United States Tax Court
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