Harry L. Gutman
Of Counsel, Ivins, Phillips & Barker
Harry L. (Hank) Gutman is Of Counsel to Ivins, Phillips & Barker.
As Joint Committee Chief of Staff from 1991 through 1993, Hank was the primary nonpartisan adviser to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees concerning the technical, economic and revenue aspects of tax legislation. Hank also served as Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel in the Treasury Department Office of Tax Policy, where he received the Treasury Exceptional Service Award. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School (1980-1989). He was the Principal in Charge of KPMG’s Tax Legislative and Regulatory Service Group from 1999 to 2015 and has been a partner in several law firms.
Throughout his career, Hank has counseled major multinational corporations on various implications of tax legislative change. He has represented clients in legislative and administrative matters before the Congress, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service.
Hank received his undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a BA degree in Jurisprudence from University College, Oxford University, and his LLB degree from Harvard Law School.