Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation
- Tulane University Law School, JD,
magna cum laude
- Managing Editor, Tulane Law Review
- Order of the Coif
- Tulane University, BA,
cum laude
Dan A. Kusnetz
Of Counsel
Represents pro-bono clients, including nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, with most focused on social justice and equity-based issues.
Dan, formerly a partner of the firm, retired from his tax practice and now serves as pro-bono counsel to nonprofit entities ̶ advising on all aspects of their life cycles from formation, achieving tax-exempt status, dissolution, mergers and commercial transactions.
Currently, active clients include, among numerous others, Girls Who Code, Habitat for Humanity, Foundation Rwanda, Partners in Health, Justice for Greenwood, the Urban Justice Center, Marshall Plan for Moms and Guernica.
Before retiring from his tax practice, Dan focused on the tax aspects of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, bankruptcy, workouts, corporate restructuring and distressed asset investing, structured finance and real estate.
Some of his more significant engagements and transactions, throughout a professional career spanning 40 years, include his representation of:
- Cerberus Capital Management in the acquisition of a controlling interest in Chrysler (and, later, the sale of Chrysler and its debtor subsidiaries’ assets in their Chapter 11 reorganization and sale of Chrysler Financial to TD Bank)
- A group of senior secured lenders in their acquisition and recapitalization of the assets of Westmoreland Resource Partners LP
- An institutional real estate investor in a $3-billion leveraged recapitalization of a real estate joint venture
- Several major financial institutions in respect of the acquisition of over $2.5 billion of life settlement assets and several fund sponsors and other investment vehicles in the formation of litigation finance funds
Dan has been recognized as a leading tax lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 US.
The Best Part of My Job Is
“For the past 40+ years my pro-bono practice was always the best part of my job. Now, in retirement, practicing exclusively in the pro-bono sphere, I am constantly excited by the opportunity to help my clients to achieve their charitable missions. My clients are all making this world a better place and getting the opportunity to work with them and leverage their efforts is both personally and professionally gratifying.”
Highlights
Dan A. Kusnetz
Of Counsel
Represents pro-bono clients, including nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, with most focused on social justice and equity-based issues.
Dan, formerly a partner of the firm, retired from his tax practice and now serves as pro-bono counsel to nonprofit entities ̶ advising on all aspects of their life cycles from formation, achieving tax-exempt status, dissolution, mergers and commercial transactions.
Currently, active clients include, among numerous others, Girls Who Code, Habitat for Humanity, Foundation Rwanda, Partners in Health, Justice for Greenwood, the Urban Justice Center, Marshall Plan for Moms and Guernica.
Before retiring from his tax practice, Dan focused on the tax aspects of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, bankruptcy, workouts, corporate restructuring and distressed asset investing, structured finance and real estate.
Some of his more significant engagements and transactions, throughout a professional career spanning 40 years, include his representation of:
- Cerberus Capital Management in the acquisition of a controlling interest in Chrysler (and, later, the sale of Chrysler and its debtor subsidiaries’ assets in their Chapter 11 reorganization and sale of Chrysler Financial to TD Bank)
- A group of senior secured lenders in their acquisition and recapitalization of the assets of Westmoreland Resource Partners LP
- An institutional real estate investor in a $3-billion leveraged recapitalization of a real estate joint venture
- Several major financial institutions in respect of the acquisition of over $2.5 billion of life settlement assets and several fund sponsors and other investment vehicles in the formation of litigation finance funds
Dan has been recognized as a leading tax lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 US.
The Best Part of My Job Is
“For the past 40+ years my pro-bono practice was always the best part of my job. Now, in retirement, practicing exclusively in the pro-bono sphere, I am constantly excited by the opportunity to help my clients to achieve their charitable missions. My clients are all making this world a better place and getting the opportunity to work with them and leverage their efforts is both personally and professionally gratifying.”
Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation
- Tulane University Law School, JD,
magna cum laude
- Managing Editor, Tulane Law Review
- Order of the Coif
- Tulane University, BA,
cum laude
