Kevin J. Feeley is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Chicago office. He focuses his practice on the taxation of complex transactions, with particular emphasis on structuring mergers and acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations, tax free spin-off and split-offs, and restructurings of financially troubled companies. Kevin also has extensive experience in structuring and implementing partnership and limited liability company transactions, including joint ventures and private equity fund formations and investments. His experience includes advising both privately held and public companies on tax minimization strategies. He also works regularly with cooperatives and S corporations.
A large part of Kevin’s practice includes advising sponsors of, and investors in, private equity funds, hedge funds and other alternative investment structures. His work for sponsors includes fund formation work, advising on the acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies, and structuring investments in a manner that avoids creating taxable nexus in the United States. He also routinely advises a number of large pension funds and university endowments on the tax implications of alternative investments.
Kevin is a frequent lecturer, having spoken on a number of Federal tax topics at Bar association meetings, tax institutes and trade associations. Kevin is also on the Planning Committee for the Chicago-Kent College of Law Annual Federal Tax Institute and an Advisory Board member for the bi-monthly CCH publication Journal of Taxation of Corporate Transactions. Most recently, he co-authored an article entitled “Disregarding a Liquidation: The Bizarre Browning-Ferris Case,” which appeared in the June 2008 issue of Tax Notes.
While in law school, Kevin was executive editor of the Law Review. Kevin is also an adjunct faculty member at both Chicago Kent College of Law and DePaul University School of Law where he teaches courses on the taxation of corporate reorganizations.
Kevin is a member of the bars of the State of Illinois, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Seventh and Eighth Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1990
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S. (with honors), 1987
