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David Shakow has specialized in taxation for over 30 years. He has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School since 1982, was Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Treasury from 1980-1981, and has held positions at Davis Polk & Wardwell, McKee Nelson, King & Spalding and KPMG. He also served as clerk to the Honorable William B. Hastie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has practiced, taught, and written, in the areas of corporate tax, partnership tax, international tax, bankruptcy tax, and the taxation of farmers' cooperatives. While at Treasury, he had primary responsibility for developing the government's position regarding the Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980, the treatment of tax straddles, and the taxation of farmers' cooperatives. Mr. Shakow received an LL.M (in Taxation) from New York University Law School, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Harvard College. | 