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Arthur R. Rosen is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, resident in its New York office. He is a member of the Firm's Tax Department, where his practice focuses on tax planning and litigation relating to state and local tax matters for corporations, partnerships and individuals. He chairs the Firm's nationwide State and Local Tax Practice. Formerly the deputy counsel of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, as well as counsel to the Governor's Temporary Sales Tax Commission and tax counsel to the New York State Senate Tax Committee, Art has held executive tax management positions at Xerox Corporation and AT&T.
Art is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America and in The Best Lawyers in New York. Art has also been ranked as a leading tax attorney in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
In the transactional planning area, Art advises multinational and domestic corporations and partnerships on the nationwide state and local tax implications of restructurings, refinancings, mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and asset dispositions. In the proactive planning area, Art advises large and medium-sized corporations and partnerships on nationwide state and local tax savings opportunities available through tools such as restructuring and various intercompany arrangements.
In the controversy area, Art represents clients throughout the United States at all stages of the state and local tax process, including audit, administrative appeals, state courts of general jurisdiction and state supreme courts.
In the area of lobbying, Art has represented various business interests in the context of state and local tax legislation, as well as tax regulations and tax policy.
In the context of internet and e-commerce tax issues, Art is nationally acknowledged and respected as being on the cutting-edge. In large part, this is due to his having had extensive experience in state and local tax matters specifically relating to telecommunications, direct marketing, financial services and intellectual property. He has been providing substantial guidance and counsel to numerous clients in connection with pending and potential e-commerce tax issues arising under current law. In addition, he has been extremely active in attempting to shape future law through work on the National Tax Association's Electronic Commerce Tax Project's Steering Committee, dedicated participation in the activities of the Federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce and representation of a coalition of major corporations in an effort to ensure that Congress considers certain important aspects of tax policy when it determines how e-commerce transactions and businesses should be taxed.
Art is a past chairman of the State and Local Tax Committee of the American Bar Association's Tax Section. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Tax Section, and has served as co-chairman of its Committees on New York State Tax Matters, New York City Tax Matters and State and Local Tax Matters. He also serves as chairman of the NYU Tax Society, is a past president of the National Association of State Bar Tax Sections and is an active member of the Institute of Property Taxation and the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Tax Committee. Art founded and chairs the annual week-long "Introduction to State and Local Taxes" program, as well as the advanced program, offered at New York University.
Art is the editor of the monthly newsletter Inside New York Taxes, co-editor of the semi-monthly newsletters, New York Tax Highlights and New York Tax Cases. He was the original editor-in-chief of CCH's E-Commerce Tax Alert and was the monthly tax columnist for the E-Commerce Law Journal. He has written numerous articles that have appeared in publications such as the Journal of Taxation, the Journal of State Taxation, the Journal of Bank Taxation, the State and Local Tax Lawyer, Multistate Tax Analyst, Inc. Magazine, the Assessment Digest, the Journal of New York Taxation, and The Tax Executive. In addition, he has spoken extensively throughout the country on state and local tax matters.
Education
St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 1974
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.B.A., 1977
New York University, A.P.C., 1975
New York University, B.A., 1971 | 