Jerry Libin, Practice Group Leader of Sutherland’s Tax Practice Group, handles matters involving virtually every aspect of domestic and international corporate taxation for a broad range of U.S. and foreign clients. His principal areas of concentration are tax controversy; tax planning (including transfer pricing); corporate acquisitions, dispositions and restructurings; and financial transactions involving domestic and international tax considerations. Jerry has successfully litigated a number of important federal tax cases. He also handles constitutional challenges to state tax statutes.

Jerry has extensive experience in dealing with the U.S. Department of Treasury in matters such as the revision of proposed regulations and the negotiation of tax treaty provisions. He has handled legislative matters involving presentations to the congressional tax-writing committees and the Joint Committee on Taxation. As a consultant to the American Law Institute International Tax Study Project, Jerry participated in the development of a number of international tax proposals that became part of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. He has also served as an informal adviser to the staff of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.

Before joining the firm, Jerry served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles E. Whittaker, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.