Collette C. Goodman

Ms. Goodman advises on a broad range of tax matters in connection with the firm’s representation of clients in other areas of its practice, including litigation, securities, railway labor management, banking, environmental, government contracts, union labor, ERISA and employee benefit matters.

Ms. Goodman serves as tax counsel to a nonprofit corporation formed to manage product liability claims of its 20 major corporate members. She also has handled tax issues arising from the firm's work in representing regulated investment companies and insurance companies issuing variable annuity contracts. For the firm’s many corporate clients, including several high-tech companies, she has worked on structuring of business operations, mergers and acquisitions, financial products and stock option, deferred compensation, golden parachute, and other executive compensation matters. Ms. Goodman also advises several charitable, tax exempt organizations.

In 1994, Ms. Goodman spent two months in Hanoi, Vietnam, in connection with the firm's and her interest in expanding our practice in that part of the world. Since that time, she has advised various clients on the establishment of business operations in Vietnam.