Thomas W. Giegerich is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s New York office. He is a member of the Firm's Tax Department and the head of the tax practice in the New York office.
Tom advises domestic and international clients regarding a wide range of corporate tax planning and transactional matters, including taxable and tax-free mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate restructurings, cross-border joint ventures and distribution and licensing arrangements, and finance transactions. He has extensive experience advising on the specialized U.S. tax issues faced by foreign multinationals and foreign-owned U.S. multinationals, including tax treaty issues, repatriation strategies and transfer pricing, and has worked on numerous projects involving multi-jurisdictional tax issues. Tom also has represented clients in tax disputes before the IRS involving a variety of matters at the audit, Appeals Office and National Office levels. Tom is identified as a leading lawyer in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (noting client comments as to Tom’s “broad experience and great tax knowledge” and “very good commercial business understanding”) and Legal 500 United States (“comprehensive tax expertise and well-rounded commercial approach”) and in International Tax Review's World Tax 2009. He also has been named to the 2011 edition of Super Lawyers and selected for inclusion as a leader in his field in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America.
Tom is admitted to practice in New York and the United States Tax Court. He is also a member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and The Tax Club. Tom serves on the Board of Visitors of Duke Law School and is a past president of the Board of Directors of the Duke Law Alumni Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Duke Law Club of New York.
While in law school, Tom was a member of the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal.
Education
- Duke University School of Law, J.D. (with distinction, Order of the Coif), 1980
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., 1986
- Fordham University, B.A. (summa cum laude in cursu honorum, Phi Beta Kappa), 1977
