Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• French

Lawyer Overview

A partner and co-chair of the Tax Department, Richard J. Bronstein is actively involved in domestic and international corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions transactions, in various partnership transactions (including securities and investment funds), in secured financing transactions (both domestic and cross-border) and in federal and New York tax audit and tax controversy matters.

In recent years, he has represented numerous domestic and offshore investment funds in connection with organizational matters and also on a transactional basis. The corporate transactions in which he has been significantly involved have related to companies and investors in the United States as well as Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, England, India, Japan, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland and numerous other countries.

Mr. Bronstein has represented parties to numerous financing transactions involving projects and equipment located in the United States and other countries. On a regular basis, he represents taxpayers in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and local tax authorities, and he has litigated cases in the United States Tax Court and elsewhere.

Representative clients include General Atlantic LLC, C-I Capital, Avenue Capital Group, Harbinger Capital Partners and Continental Grain Company. Mr. Bronstein is recognized as a leading Tax lawyer in the United States by Chambers USA and Legal 500.

Mr. Bronstein served as articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He is a member of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and is also a member of the Practising Law Institute's Tax Law Advisory Committee.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate
• Tax

Representative Clients

• General Atlantic LLC
• ContiGroup Companies
• Caxton-Iseman Capital
• Avenue Capital Group
• Reservoir Capital

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, Taxation Law

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1974
• New York, 1977
• District of Columbia, 1984
• U.S. Tax Court, 1977

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member)
• New York State Bar Association (Member of the Tax Section)
• Practising Law Institute's Tax Law Advisory Committee (Member)

Honors and Awards

• University of Chicago Law Review, Article & Book Review Editor, 1973 - 1974

Past Employment Positions

• Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III, .S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Law Clerk, 1974 - 1975
• Justice William J. Brennan Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, Law Clerk, 1975 - 1976

Education

• University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 1974
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  
  Law Review: University of Chicago Law Review, Article Editor
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1971
  A.B.
  Honors: summa cum laude

Published Works

• Stimulus Legislation Includes Debt Cancellation Tax Relief, February 13, 2009
• Senate Stimulus Bill Addresses Debt Cancellation and NOL Carrybacks, January 28, 2009
• House Bill for Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act, December 11, 2008
• Highlights of Rangel's 2007 Tax Reform Bill, October 26, 2007
• Congress Considers Tax Law Changes Affecting Investment Funds, March 6, 2007
• Deferred Compensation/December 31, 2005 Deadlines Under Section 409A, December 8, 2005
• Newly Proposed Tax Rules on Compensatory Partnership Interests, June 27, 2005
• Investment Funds Update – Proposed Tax Legislation, May 14, 2004
• Income Trusts, Income Deposit Securities, Enhanced Income Securities and Income Participating Securities, April 16, 2004
• Investment Funds Group Update, January 9, 2004
• New Tax Regulations Affect Confidentiality Agreements, January 6, 2004
• IRS Changes Rules for COD Income, September 19, 2003
• Jobs and Growth Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 - Effect on U.S. Investment in Canadian Corporations and Income and Royalty Trusts, June 27, 2003
• New Regulations on Tax Reportable Transactions - Effect on Confidentiality Agreements, March 7, 2003

Address

1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6064

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(212) 373-3744

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