Gary R. Huffman

Gary Huffman's practice focuses on tax planning, with a particular emphasis on partnerships, financial products, and natural resources. For more than 25 years Gary has advised major multinationals, including some of the world's largest banks and oil and gas exploration and production companies. He adds to V&E's depth of experience in oil and gas taxation as well as in the structuring of, and raising capital for, master limited partnerships (MLPs). He also has led major corporate acquisitions, disposition and spin-off transactions, and has structured countless strategic alliances, both domestic and international. Gary is an adjunct professor in the Georgetown University Graduate Tax Program, teaching advanced partnership taxation. A frequent lecturer on complex tax partnership issues, he is a regular speaker with the Practicing Law Institute and has spoken to audiences at the National Institute of Tax Professionals and the Tax Executives Institute. In addition, Gary co-authored the treatise "Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners," Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 4th edition, copyright 2007.

Education and Professional Background

• The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, J.D., 1988 (Order of the Coif)
• The University of Illinois, B.S., with high honors, 1985
• Admitted to practice: Disctrict of Columbia, 2005 and Texas, 1988

• "Non-Compensatory Partnership Options, Convertibles, Recapitalizations and Similar Transactions," PLI's Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances, Chicago, Illinois, May 12, 2010 and New York, New York, May 25, 2010
• "Non-Compensatory Partnership Options, Convertibles, Recapitalizations and Similar Transactions," PLI's Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances, Chicago, Illinois, May 15, 2009 and New York, New York, May 27, 2009
• National Institute of Tax Professionals' Partnership Tax Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 22-24, 2008 (speaker)
• "Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners," Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 4th edition, 2007 (co-author)
• "The Taxation of Oil and Gas Partnerships," Tax Notes, 108, no. 13: 1405-1453, September 19, 2005
• "Application of Final and Proposed Section 197 Regulations to Partnership Transactions," Practicing Law Institute, Volume 2, 2000
• "Analysis of the Administration's Partnership Proposals," Tax Notes, 84, no 1: 103-140, July 5, 1999