Joseph M. Pari

Partner Washington, D.C.

Biography

Joe Pari
Joseph Pari is Co-Chair of Weil’s Tax Department and is based in New York and Washington, D.C. Mr. Pari 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, Mr. Pari was National Principal-in-Charge of Washington National Tax at KPMG LLP.

Mr. Pari is on the advisory boards of the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation and the Federal Bar Association, 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. 

Mr. Pari 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 board of the National Foreign Trade Council, Inc.

Mr. Pari was named among Who’s Who Legal’s Thought Leaders - Global Elite in 2020 for Corporate Tax. He has also been selected for inclusion in publications including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500 US, Who’s Who Legal, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and Washington D.C. Super Lawyers and Turnarounds & Workouts magazine. Mr. Pari was named Washington, D.C. Tax Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America in 2012.

Awards and Recognition, Speaking Engagements, Firm News & Announcements

Awards and Recognition

  • Joe Pari Named a “Bankruptcy Tax Specialist” Award Brief — Turnarounds & Workouts

Speaking Engagements

  • 2017 Tax Act – What Has Changed Two Years In? Speaker(s): Joseph M. Pari

    March 17, 2020 — New York, NY — Co-Chair of Weil’s Tax Department Joe Pari presents on a panel titled “Application of the 2017 Tax Act Provisions to Consolidated Groups” as part of PLI’s “2017 Tax Act – What Has Changed Two Years In?” The panel discusses Business interest expense limitations in Section 163(j); Expensing provisions of Section 168(k); and International provisions of the Tax Act (e.g., GILTI, FDII, 245A and BEAT).

  • Consolidated Tax Return Regulations 2020 Speaker(s): Joseph M. Pari

    January 21, 2020 — New York, NY — Co-Chair of Weil’s Tax Department Joe Pari participated in a segment titled “Investment Adjustments and Related Issues” as part of PLI’s 12-hour program titled “Consolidated Tax Return Regulations 2020.” The segment provided an overview of special adjustments to stock basis of subsidiary members of consolidated groups along with detailed examples of more complex situations, including: pitfalls related to excess loss accounts; earnings and profits tier-up rules; special basis and earnings and profits rules related to reverse acquisitions and holding company formations; and allocation of items when group members join or depart.

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