About Thomas
Tom Phillips focuses his practice on taxation and provides tax analysis, advice, and tax opinions to publicly traded and closely-held business entities. He has more than 40 years of experience representing clients in and structuring and implementing tax-free reorganizations and mergers, spinoffs, cross-border transactions, taxable asset and stock purchase transactions and partnership transactions. That experience also includes representing private placement investments in limited partnerships and limited liability companies involving hedge funds, distressed company investments, commercial real estate, value company investments, and low-income housing tax credit projects. Tom has extensive experience in tax controversy matters representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service, Wisconsin Department of Revenue, and federal and state courts.
Practice Areas
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Tax Law, Milwaukee (2016)
- Recognized: Litigation and Controversy - Tax
- Recognized: Tax Law
- Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Practice Area: Real Estate Law
- Special Focus: Corporate
- Special Focus: Mergers & Acquisitions
- Special Focus: Partnership
- Special Focus: Private Equity Funds
- Special Focus: Regulated Investment Companies
- Special Focus: State and Local Tax
- Special Focus: Subchapter S Corporations
- Special Focus: Tax Disputes
- Special Focus: Tax Planning
- Special Focus: Transactions
- State Bar of Wisconsin Pro Bono Honor Society
- AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®
- American Bar Foundation, Fellow
- Wisconsin Law Foundation, Fellow