Dr. Phillip Desalvo

Biography

Phillip DeSalvo is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches a LL.M. tax course on practical application of tax modeling. He is the Principal of KPMG’s National M&A Tax practice based in the firm's Chicago office, specializing in transactional partnership matters, private equity mergers, acquisitions deal work, structure consultation, joint ventures, public equity offerings, and general deal management. He founded KPMG’s Partnership Transactions Group, which focuses on tax structuring consultation related to a variety of complex partnership transactions. Phillip has experience working with leading private equity investment firms and portfolio companies, assisting clients at all stages of transactions including acquisition structuring, transaction execution, post-closing integration, and divestiture planning. His expertise includes evaluating tax risk factors, availability of tax attributes, transaction structuring, exit planning, tax equity partnerships, umbrella partnership C corporation (UP-C), and synthetic master limited partnership yield vehicles (YieldCo) for planning initial public offerings. He is a frequent speaker at various partnership tax and M&A seminars.

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