Robert J. Crnkovich

Bob Crnkovich is a member of Ernst & Young LLP's National Tax Partnership Transactional Planning and Economics Group, where he advises on the taxation of partnerships, hedge funds, private equity, and real estate.  He rejoined the group this past year after serving as Senior Counsel in the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Tax Policy in Washington, D.C., where he focused on partnership matters.

Background

For nearly 25 years Bob has been on the faculty at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches two courses, Advanced Partnership Taxation and Private Equity & Hedge Funds: Taxation and Transactions. A frequent lecturer, Bob has spoken at a number of conferences, including those sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School, New York University, the University of Virginia, the University of Southern California, the University of Alabama, the Practising Law Institute, the Tax Executives Institute, the American Bar Association, the Southern Federal Tax Institute, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has also written extensively in the partnership area, including co-authoring the Tax Management Portfolios on Limited Liability Companies and Non-compensatory Partnership Options (to-be-released) and the following recent articles - Son of Boss Revisited; Castle Harbour Strikes Again; Partnership Conversions - Making Something Out of Nothing; CFC Stock Held by Foreign Partnerships - Confusion Galore; and New COD-AHYDO Legislation - Needed Relief Adds Complexity.

Bob is a member of the Washington, DC bar and earned accounting and law degrees from Marquette University and a masters of law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.