David Wheat joins Kirkland & Ellis’s tax team in Houston

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David Wheat joins Kirkland & Ellis’s tax team in Houston

David Wheat

David Wheat has joined Kirkland & Ellis’s tax practice group as a partner in the firm’s Houston office.

Wheat comes from serving as principal of KPMG’s Washington nation tax practice, where he focused on corporate tax and financing transactions in the energy sector. He has thorough experience advising clients on partnerships, limited liability companies, sub c and sub k entities, tax aspects of M&A transactions and tax controversy.

Wheat serves as council director for the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation and the same organisation’s Section of Taxation Corporate Tax Committee, and as vice chairman of the Texas Federal Tax Institute.

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