Robert A. Desilets, Jr.
Practice Focus:
Taxation
ERISA
Employee Benefits
Business Transactions
Securities
Contact Information
Norfolk Office
500 World Trade Center
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
(757) 446-8521
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Rob is an attorney with Vandeventer Black and concentrates his law practice in taxation, ERISA, employee benefits, business transactions and securities matters.
His Taxation practice focuses on corporate taxation, limited liability company issues, as well as state and local tax. He has a strong practice in corporate estimated tax, overpayment and/or underpayment interest litigation, “hot interest,” interest netting and GATT interest. Rob also works on a variety of estate, gift and inheritance tax issues.
Rob’s Benefits practice concentrates on drafting Profit-Sharing and Section 401(k) Plans and Trust documents for corporate sponsors, employee plan qualification / operation analysis, and ERISA.
His Business Transactions practice includes analyzing tax consequences for a variety of corporate and partnership transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, Section 355 and Section 368 reorganizations, deemed asset sales, corporate liquidations, partnership formation and basis allocation, asset distribution and partnership termination. Rob is also well-versed in the private inurement and self-dealing rules to Section 501(c)(3) and Section 501(c)(6) tax exempt organizations.
Rob received a B.A. from Wake Forest University, a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, and a LL.M. in Taxation and LL.M. in Securities Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Before joining Vandeventer Black, Rob practiced at the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Chief Counsel. Rob is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, North Carolina and the United States Tax Court.
A few of Rob’s most notable accomplishments include receiving the IRS National Office award for his work on a myriad of Estimated Tax issues and serving as principal author of several IRS Proposed Regulations and Announcements, including § 6724 Regulations, Special Rules for Determining Whether the Rectification of an Information Reporting Failure is Considered Prompt; § 6655 Corporate Estimated Tax Regulations; Notice 2000-5, IRS Provides Estimated Tax Penalty Relief for Corporations Receiving REIT Dividends, 2000-4 IRB 1. He co-authored, “A Skeletal Outline of Retirement Plan Distribution Rules and Essential Principles of Estate Planning,” Orthopedics Today, December 1998, at 36. Rob published “The Amortization of Intellectual Property and Other Intangibles: An Analysis of Proposed IRC Regulation Sections 1.167(a)-14 and 1.197-2,” Newsletter for the Intellectual Property Section of the District of Columbia Bar (July 1998); “Payments Received for Use of an Exempt Organization’s Name and Logo: Royalties or UBTI?,” 13 Exempt Organization Tax Review (No. 6) 967 (June 1996); “The Effect of Private Inurement on Physician Recruitment: When is Too Little Too Much and Too Much Not Enough?,” 13 Exempt Organization Tax Review (No. 3) 449 (March 1996); “The Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Securities Attorney: Confidentiality, Confusion and the Need for Change,” 23 Capital University Law Review 611 (1994).