Joe Pari

Partner Washington, D.C.

Biography

Joe 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 has 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. He is also recognized as a “Bankruptcy Tax Specialist” by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine. Mr. Pari was named Washington, D.C. Tax Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America in 2012.

Practice Areas

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)

Firm News & Announcements, Awards and Recognition, Speaking Engagements

Firm News & Announcements

Weil Advises Willis Towers Watson in up to $1.4B Acquisition of TRANZACT Deal Brief — April 01, 2019
Weil Advises Brookfield Asset Management in its 62% Stake Acquisition of Oaktree Capital Management Deal Brief — March 14, 2019

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Awards and Recognition

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

Speaking Engagements

TEI’s 69th Midyear Conference Speaker(s): Joe Pari
April 01, 2019 — Washington, D.C. — Co-Chair of Weil’s Tax Department Joe Pari spoke on a panel titled “NOL’s, Tax Credits, and the Loss Limitation Rules – Post-TCJA” as part of TEI’s 69th Midyear Conference.
2019 Tax Legislative and Regulatory Update Conference Speaker(s): Joe Pari
January 29, 2019 — Washington, D.C. — Weil’s Tax Department Co-Chair Joe Pari moderated a panel titled “Bankruptcy Taxation Post-TCJA: NOLs; Section 382 and Notice 2003-65 and their interaction with GILTI, section 965, FDII, and section 163(j)” as part of the 2019 Tax Legislative and Regulatory Update Conference sponsored by the D.C. Bar Taxation Community and Georgetown University Law Center.