Scott Levine advised on the tax aspects of corporate transactions, including cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and other divestitures, restructurings, financings, and joint ventures. He also has negotiated private letter rulings with the Internal Revenue Service in the corporate, international, financial instruments, and energy tax credit areas.
He frequently lectures and participates as a panelist at programs for the ABA, D.C. Bar, Practising Law Institute (PLI), International Fiscal Association (IFA), Tax Executives Institute (TEI), Southern Federal Tax Institute (SFTI), and other organizations and universities addressing a wide range of income tax topics and policies.
Scott is an active member of the ABA's Tax Section, a past chair of the ABA's Corporate Tax Committee, and the primary author of several comment letters including more recently the ABA's comment letters on the proposed global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) regulations, the temporary section 245A regulations, the final GILTI regulations, and the proposed opportunity zone regulations. Scott was a two-term member of the D.C. Bar Tax Section's Steering Committee and chair of the Tax Section's Corporate Tax Committee. He was chair of the D.C. Bar's Annual Tax Reform Conference since its inception in 2017 through the end 2023.
