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Russell Kestenbaum is a partner in the Tax Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, based in their New York office. He advises clients on the tax aspects of initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), structuring for private equity funds, debt issuances and tax issues relating to bankruptcies and out of court restructurings. Mr. Kestenbaum's clients include Cerberus Capital Partners, The Carlyle Group, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch and various court appointed creditors' committees, including those in the Enron, Refco and Winn-Dixie bankruptcy proceedings.
Articles by Mr. Kestenbaum appear in several publications including The Tax Lawyer, Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions published by the Practising Law Institute and the Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law.
Mr. Kestenbaum received his B.A. from SUNY Albany and earned his J.D. with honors from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he was the Executive Editor of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif. | 