Partner, Dallas

Practice Description

David Wheat focuses his practice on corporate tax, mergers and acquisition tax, transactions involving partnerships and LLCs, and tax controversies. He provides clients with transactional planning and advice, document preparation, and preparation of tax opinions on federal and state tax implications of business transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions and the formation and operation of partnerships and limited liability companies.

Mr. Wheat also has experience in administrative and judicial litigation in federal and state tax matters.

Representations

• Tax advice in $1.4 billion shale joint venture

• Structuring advice and tax opinion regarding public spin-off

• Tax advice and negotiating $2 billion sale of assets

• Served as special tax counsel in a $1.5 billion stock purchase

• Served as special tax counsel in the reincorporation of a multinational company to the Cayman Islands

Distinctions/Honors

• The Best Lawyers in America^® by Woodward/White Inc. (Tax Law); 1999-2011

• Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisors

Events

• Legal Issues in Emerging Resource Plays
  Sep 29, 2010

Press Releases/In the News

• T&K Assists Petrohawk in $825 Million Debt Offering ; August 23, 2010
  

• "New Deals" section, Texas Lawyer; August 02, 2010
  

Presentations/Publications

• "Legislative and Regulatory Update: The Latest in Tax and Financial Reform," Webinar, Dallas, July 29, 2010
  

• "Oil and Gas Tax Issues," Thompson & Knight Energy Symposium, April 2010
  

Activities

• Chair, American Bar Association Corporate Tax Committee, 2003-2004; Chair-Elect, 2002-2003; Vice-Chair 2000-2002; Chair of Subcommittee on Taxable Distributions, 1997-2000

• Chair, State Bar of Texas Section of Taxation, 2004; Chair-Elect, 2003-2004; Chair of the Corporate Tax Committee, 1997-1998; Council Member, 1999-2001; Treasurer, 2001-2002; Secretary, 2002-2003