Daniel T. Sherlock

Shareholder

T: +1 (312) 609 7551 F: +1 (312) 609 5005

Chicago

Co-Chair, Tax & Estate Planning Group

Daniel T. Sherlock has counseled corporate, limited liability company, partnership and individual clients on a wide range of tax matters. He has substantial experience in taxable and nontaxable acquisitions and dispositions; private equity and venture capital investing; debt and equity restructurings; planning for specialized corporate entities such as S corporations and regulated investment companies; planning and structuring public and private investment vehicles, including the tax aspects of syndicated investments; federal, state and local tax audits and controversies, bankruptcy tax matters; and distressed real estate workouts.

Mr. Sherlock is a frequent lecturer at seminars and group panel sessions on a broad range of tax-related topics, including the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and individual tax planning and controversies with federal and local tax authorities. He is the co-author of "Operating and Maintaining the S Corporation," a chapter of an Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education treatise on S corporations. Mr. Sherlock served in the US Army as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and was assigned to the US Military Academy at West Point, New York from 1982 through 1984. He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation and the Federal Taxation Committee of the Chicago Bar Association.

Mr. Sherlock was selected for inclusion in 2005 and from 2011 to 2012 Illinois Super Lawyers.

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• Recent Tax Law Changes Provide Relief When Restructuring Debt Obligations
• S Corporation Term Sheet for Capital Purchase Program
• Buying and Selling Businesses
• New Law: IL Requires Partnerships, S corporations and Trusts to Withhold Income Tax on Nonresidents

• Corporate Tax Planning
• Finance and Transactions
• International Taxation
• LLC and Partnership Tax Planning
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Mutual Funds
• Private Equity and Venture Capital
• Tax Controversy

• LL.M. (Taxation), New York University, 1987
• J.D., cum laude, University of Notre Dame, 1981
• B.A., cum laude, Loyola University of Chicago, 1978

• Illinois, 1981
• US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1981
• US Tax Court, 1989
• US Claims Court, 1990

• Member, American Bar Association (Section of Taxation)
• Member, Chicago Bar Association (Federal Taxation Committee)