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Mr. Haynes is a partner specializing in taxation law. He counsels clients on federal income, excise, gift and estate tax issues, international tax issues, and issues related to state and local income, sales, use and property taxes and other licenses and fees. His practice involves advising individuals and businesses with respect to the tax aspects of complex business transactions involving the formation, operation, reorganization and dissolution of partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, trusts and other entities, the acquisition and disposition of businesses, real estate transactions and international transactions.
Mr. Haynes also provides advice to individuals with respect to the tax aspects of personal and family wealth and charitable planning. He frequently represent clients in tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, the California Franchise Tax Board and State Board of Equalization, and has appeared in the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. District Court and before the California State Board of Equalization.
Mr. Haynes has a special expertise in the taxation of partnerships and limited liability companies and complex financial transactions, in connection with the Firm’s extensive practice of representing investment advisers, hedge funds and venture capital funds. He works closely with the members of the Firm’s investment advisory practice in representation of investment adviser clients.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Haynes is admitted to practice in U.S. Federal Tax Court. He is a member of the Taxation Sections of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California and the Bar Association of San Francisco. He is a former Chair of the Business and Commercial Law Committee of the Barrister’s Club of San Francisco. He has published several articles on topics related to the taxation of investment partnerships and offshore investment funds.
EDUCATION
Mr. Haynes received a B.A. degree in history with departmental honors in 1982 and an M.A. in history in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley. He received his J.D. degree from that University’s Boalt Hall School of Law in 1989. | 