Fred T. Goldberg, Jr.
Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Mr. Goldberg represents business, tax-exempt and individual clients in all phases of a dispute resolution with tax authorities, including at audit, in administrative appeal, mediation and arbitration, and in litigation. A primary focus of his practice has been to resolve large and complex tax controversies related to a wide range of issues and across all industries. These matters have involved tax accounting; transfer pricing; IRS challenges to research and experimentation (R&E) and energy tax credit claims; placed-in-service issues; IRS challenges to various capital market transactions; the status of tax-exempt bonds; the examination of tax-exempt organizations; the tax treatment of corporate distributions and reorganizations; the valuation of going concerns; international restructuring transactions; the tax treatment of insurance contracts; and compliance with information reporting and withholding rules.
Clients have turned to Mr. Goldberg to advise on a variety of complex transactional and compliance matters having industry-wide significance. Additionally, he has directed compliance and management reviews on behalf of senior executives and boards of directors. On a selective basis, he also has counseled clients on several other regulatory and legislative matters.
Mr. Goldberg co-led Skadden’s Global Tax Group for over 20 years. He also was a member of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS and executive director of the Bipartisan Congressional Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.