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News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June, 2006
Desilets Joins Law Offices of Vandeventer Black
NORFOLK, VA.
The law offices of Vandeventer Black LLP are pleased to announce that Robert A. Desilets, Jr. has joined the firm. Desilets will concentrate his practice in Taxation, ERISA, Employee Benefits, Business Transactions and Securities.
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/underpayment interest litigation, “hot interest,” interest netting and GATT interest. Desilets also works on a variety of estate, gift and inheritance tax issues.
Desilets’ 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.
Desilets earned his B.A. from Wake Forest University, his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, and his LL.M. in Taxation and LL.M. in Securities Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Before joining Vandeventer Black, Desilets practiced at the IRS’ Office of Chief Counsel, where he received the IRS National Office award for his work on a myriad of Estimated Tax issues, and served as principal author of several IRS Proposed Regulations and Announcements. Desilets is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, North Carolina and the United States Tax Court.
Desilets is based in the firm’s Norfolk office. For more information visit www.vanblk.com.
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