Bio

David Brandon is a tax and business attorney who regularly counsels business enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and investors with respect to the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, commercial transactions, financings, reorganizations, spin-offs, and other significant transactions. In this context he aids clients in structuring tax-free reorganizations, crafting transfer pricing strategies and applying tax treaty principles, implementing strategies responsive to U.S. tax reform, and, where appropriate, counseling clients with respect to obtaining tax opinions and letter rulings. Having lived in South Korea and traveled in and around coastal Asia, David enjoys learning about his client’s commercial and charitable activities abroad and has experience assisting U.S. persons abroad and non-U.S. persons in the United States. David frequently works with nonprofit organizations seeking to advance their philanthropic missions domestically and worldwide by assisting with global organizational structuring, grant agreements, equivalency determinations, fiscal sponsorships, “friends of” organizations, and tax exemption matters.