Joseph Pari is Co-Chair of Weil’s Tax Department and is based in New York and Washington, D.C. Joseph has extensive experience advising on federal income taxation of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, other divestiture types, restructurings, bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy workouts, acquisition financing and the use of pass-through entities in acquisitive and divisive transactions, with a particular emphasis on corporate tax planning, the utilization of net operating losses and other tax attributes and consolidated return matters.

Prior to joining Weil, Joseph was National Principal-in-Charge of Washington National Tax at KPMG LLP.
Joseph is on Bloomberg Industry Group's Corporate Taxation Advisory Board and the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation advisory board and is an adjunct faculty member at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a frequent speaker on tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and other divestitures, corporate tax planning, workouts and consolidated return matters.

Joseph has served as chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section; council director for the American Bar Association Tax Section’s Corporate Tax Committee, Committee on Affiliated and Related Corporations, and Bankruptcy and Workouts Committee; chair of the American Bar Association Tax Section’s Committee on Affiliated and Related Corporations and its Subcommittee on Consolidated Returns; co-chair of the Federal Bar Association Domestic Corporate Tax Symposia; and member of the advisory boards of the National Foreign Trade Council, Inc. and the Federal Bar Association.

Joseph is recognized as a leading lawyer for Tax in D.C. by Chambers USA, where clients note “he is a tremendous leader who inspires his team and provides exceptional advocacy for his clients.” He is also recommended for International Tax and U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious by Legal 500 US. Joseph was named a 2020 “Washington, D.C. Trailblazer” for Tax by The National Law Journal and a 2020 Tax “MVP” by Law360. He was shortlisted for the 2020 “North America Tax Practice Leader of the Year” Award for Euromoney International Tax Review’s Americas Tax Awards. Joseph is recognized among Who’s Who Legal’s Thought Leaders - Global Elite for Corporate Tax and named among Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” list. He was named Washington, D.C. Tax Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America in 2012.

Admissions

District of Columbia
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
New York State
US Tax Court

Education

Providence College (B.S., 1984)
Boston College Law School (J.D., 1987)
New York University School of Law (LL.M., 1988)

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