Matthew Boch is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Chicago office. He focuses his practice on state and local taxation.
Matthew has represented taxpayers in controversies at the audit, administrative, and/or appeals levels in a number of jurisdictions and has provided clients with tax planning advice on a variety of state and local tax issues.
Prior to joining McDermott, Matthew had been a law clerk at a firm in Indianapolis. While in law school, Matthew was a senior editor of the Environmental Law Review. He also represented nonprofit corporations and small businesses through the Hale-Dorr Legal Services Center Community Enterprise Project.
Matthew is a member of the bar of the State of Illinois and has been admitted to practice in the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Representative Experience
- Representing an online travel company in state and local tax controversies in numerous jurisdictions
- Coordinating and reviewing multi-jurisdictional research on various sales and telecommunications tax compliance issues
- Appeal of an Illinois insurance tax dispute
- Litigation of aircraft and watercraft use tax controversies
- Advising a Brazilian manufacturer on expansion into the U.S. market
- Analysis of retroactive regulations for appellate oral argument on the economic substance of a tax shelter
- Advising multinational corporations on the establishment of captive insurance subsidiaries
- Development of strategies to unwind complex partnership structures in a tax-efficient manner
- Coordination of litigation for contingent deferred swap transactions
- Litigation of family limited partnership tax dispute
- Litigation of employment tax refund cases for major teaching hospitals
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2007
- Harvard University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 2004
