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Randell Gartin represents clients on a wide range of U.S. federal income tax matters including tax-free reorganizations, partnership formation, REITs, regulated investment companies, private equity fund formation, and Foreign Investment Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA). Mr. Gartin has a great deal of experience in cross border transactions, including minimizing subpart F income, minimizing the consquences of passive foreign investment company ("PFIC") regime, avoiding PFIC status, tax-free reorganizations, and researching tax treaties and withholding taxes. In addition, he has prepared tax disclosures for public and private securities offerings and for mergers and acquisitions and represented Debtors, Secured Lenders, and Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and adversarial proceedings. Education LL.M., Taxation, with distinction, Georgetown University Law Center, 2005 Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J. Prize for Most Distinguished Graduate Graduate Tax Scholar J.D., cum laude, Southern Methodist University School of Law, 2001 SMU Law Review Assocation, Articles Editor, 1999-2001 Dean's List Phi Delta Phi B.S., Political Science, Certificate of International Relations, University of Utah, 1998 Dean's List President's Award (three consecutive Dean's Lists) Phi Kappa Phi Bar Admissions Illinois, 2006 Texas, 2001 Admitted To Practice U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Professional History Associate in the law firm of Locke Liddell & Sapp Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Chicago, 2005-2007 Associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Dallas, 2001-2004. | 