Bio

Vincent Kalafat joined Crowley Fleck PLLP in 2013 and practices in the Commercial Department in Billings. Vincent is a Partner and primarily advises clients in the areas of taxation, estate and succession planning, estate and trust administration, closely held business entities and joint ventures, merger and acquisitions, spin-off and other dispositions, and real estate transactions. Vincent is admitted to practice in Montana, North Dakota, New York, and Wyoming and before the U.S. Tax Court. Vincent is also a CPA (inactive status) and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A Montana native, Vincent attended Carroll College, where he received his B.A. degree in accounting and finance, summa cum laude, in 2003. Vincent earned his law degree, summa cum laude, from Notre Dame Law School in 2006, where he served as the Editor in Chief of the Notre Dame Law Review and earned the Colonel William J. Hoynes Award, the Law School’s highest honor. Following law school, Vincent served as a law clerk to the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to joining Crowley Fleck PLLP, Vincent was an associate with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City, where he focused on the tax aspects of U.S. and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin offs and other dispositions, leverage buyouts, joint ventures, and financing transactions.