01.18.2018 Tax Reform and its Effect on Corporate America

1. • David L. Forst, Partner, Tax, Fenwick & West LLP
• Alexander B. Kasdan, Senior Managing Director, DelMorgan & Co., Moderator
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TAX REFORM AND ITS EFFECT ON
CORPORATE AMERICA
January 18, 2018

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David L. Forst is a Partner, Tax at Fenwick & West LLP. He focuses on
international corporate taxation. David is included in Legal Media Group's
Tax Advisers Expert Guide. He is also in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame and
Law and Business Research’s International Who’s Who of Corporate and
Tax Lawyers (for the past seven years). David is listed in Chambers USA
America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2011-2016), and has been named a
Northern California Super Lawyer in Tax by San Francisco Magazine.
David is a lecturer at Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley Law School
where he focuses on international taxation. ​He is an editor of and regular
contributor to the Journal of Taxation, where his publications have included
articles on international joint ventures, international tax aspects of mergers
and acquisitions, the dual consolidated loss regulations, and foreign currency
issues. He is a regular contributor to the Journal of Passthrough Entities,
where he writes a column on international issues. David is a frequent chair
and speaker at tax conferences, including the NYU Tax Institute, the Tax
Executives Institute, and the International Fiscal Association.
David holds a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School and an A.B.
from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
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MODERATOR: Alexander B. Kasdan, Senior Managing Director,
DelMorgan & Co., brings more than twenty-five years of senior-level Wall
Street advice to middle market companies, entrepreneurs and institutional
investors. He has extensive experience in investment banking, corporate law
and restructuring at world’s leading firms, including Credit Suisse First Boston,
O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell LLP (now O'Melveny & Myers LLP), Battle
Fowler LLP (now Paul Hastings LLP) and Schlumberger Ltd., and as a
founding partner of Convergence Capital Partners. Alex has worked on more
than 100 domestic and cross-border transactions in North America, Europe and
Africa.
Alex is a Senior Advisor to Governance and Transactions LLC, an advisory firm
established in 2003 by Mr. James L. Gunderson, former Secretary and General
Counsel of Schlumberger Limited, to assist boards, management and owners
with corporate governance, compliance, structuring and strategic transactions.
Alex is a frequent moderator and an interviewer at Expert Webcast roundtable
discussions attracting business leaders and leading professionals from around
the world.
Alex graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a B.A. degree
in Economics and Italian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa during his junior
year. In addition, he holds a J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School
and has studied at the University of Florence in Italy.
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