Bio

David Kall is the Managing Member of McDonald Hopkins' Cleveland office, chair of the Tax and Benefits Practice Group, chair of the Multistate Tax Practice Group, chair of the Capital Markets Practice Group within the firm’s Business Department, and serves on the firm's Board of Directors. As chair of the Capital Markets Practice Group, Dave spends a considerable amount of time counseling early and growth-stage companies, capital providers and entrepreneurs in a vast array of legal areas. Dave also provides independent advice to tax directors with respect to tax minimization strategies proposed by others or developed in-house. He has advised two publicly traded real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) on an ongoing basis with respect to various issues, including going public, secondary offerings of debt and equity, tax compliance and private letter ruling requests, UPREIT structures, DownREIT transactions, and structuring and negotiating joint ventures and limited liability company agreements with developers, and other non-REITs. Dave’s tax practice also has included a significant amount of controversy work at both the federal and state levels involving domestic tax issues. He has represented clients under audit, at IRS Appeals, before the Ohio Department of Taxation and the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals. Because of Dave's extensive tax background, he provides a unique perspective to his clients seeking business counseling and advice. Dave earned a J.D., with honors, from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1993. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, with Distinction in Political Science and Honors in the Liberal Arts, from The Ohio State University in 1989.