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Kate Kraus

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    Kate Kraus is nationally recognized and has more than 20 years of experience in tax planning and structuring. She advises on a wide range of partnership, corporate, and real estate matters, including joint ventures, fund formations, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, liquidations, debt workouts, and bankruptcies.

    Kate also advises and represents clients in federal and state tax controversies. She is a leading authority on the new partnership audit rules that were enacted by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (the BBA). Kate’s work in this area includes the Bloomberg BNA Tax Management Portfolio on the BBA, for which she was named Tax Portfolio Author of the Year by Bloomberg BNA in 2023. She is also Conference Co-Chair of Practicing Law Institute’s Understanding the BBA Partnership Audit Rules conference.

    Kate is often asked to speak at conferences around the country. She has published articles in Tax Notes and Corporate Taxation and has served as a contributing author of Colliers on Bankruptcy Taxation. Her comments have also appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Forbes Money and Market blog, Tax Notes, the Bloomberg Daily Tax Report, and Law360.

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    Education
    • The University of Chicago Law School, J.D.
        • Order of the Coif
    • Princeton University, Ph.D.
    • Wellesley College, B.A.
        • summa cum laude
        • Phi Beta Kappa
        • Sigma Xi
    Bar Admissions
    • California
    Judicial Clerkship
    • Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
    Accolades
    • The Best Lawyers in America (2024-2025)
    • Bloomberg Tax & Accounting, Federal Tax Portfolio Author of the Year (2023)
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • American College of Tax Counsel, Fellow
    • American Bar Association Tax Section, Real Estate Committee, Former Chair
    • American Bar Association Tax Section, Partnerships & LLCs Committee, Member

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