Dan Meehan, Partner

Daniel P. Meehan is a partner and Chair of Cooley's Tax practice group, as well as a member of the Firm's Business department. He joined the Firm in 2000 and is resident in the New York office.

Mr. Meehan's practice focuses on the tax aspects of private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, the formation of private equity and venture capital funds, and the tax issues specific to both fund sponsors and investors. He has extensive experience with tax aspects of partnerships, LLCs and S corporations. He also advises on the tax aspects of equity-based compensation, partnership and LLC profits interests, and other nonqualified compensation arrangements.

Mr. Meehan served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert P. Ruwe of the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C. He has also written for the Journal of Partnership Taxation and The Tax Lawyer, as well as numerous other tax-related publications. Mr. Meehan is also co-author of "Negotiating Merger & Acquisition Agreements" NYU 61st Institute on Taxation (Oct. 2002) and "Multi-Step Acquisitions: New Solutions to Corporate and Securities Law Problems in Tax-Free Reorganizations" The Corporate Governance Advisor (March/April Volume 10, No. 2).

Mr. Meehan received a Masters of Law degree in taxation from Georgetown University in 1994, earning the Chetwood and Shell awards for distinguished academic performance. He received a J.D. in 1992 from Georgetown, where he was editor-in-chief of The Tax Lawyer. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, receiving a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy in 1989.

Mr. Meehan is admitted to practice in Illinois and Colorado only. Application for bar admission in New York is pending. He is a member of the Colorado and American Bar Associations.

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center
    LLM Taxation, 1994, Chetwood and Shell Awards
  • Georgetown University Law Center
    JD, 1992
  • University of Colorado at Boulder
    BA Economics & Philosophy, 1989

Admissions

  • Colorado
  • Illinois

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
New York
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1114 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036-7798

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