Robert Kester is a partner in Goodwin's Tax practice, and is also the firm’s tax counsel and Tax Matters partner. He specializes in business and investment taxation, including the representation of clients in the structuring of commercial and investment transactions.
Mr. Kester's practice includes the tax-advantaged structuring of acquisitions and dispositions, reorganizations and other business restructurings, IPOs, venture capital investments and international transactions. He regularly advises regulated investment companies (RICs), real estate investment trusts (REITs), university endowments and other tax-exempt organizations, as well as other collective investment vehicles and financial institutions and financial services companies on the special tax considerations faced by such entities and companies and their investors. His recent transactional experience includes representing:
In addition, Mr. Kester has sought and obtained private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service on many significant issues, including tax-free corporate reorganizations and spin-offs; RIC multi-class, preferential dividend, asset test and other qualification issues; the use by RICs and REITs of a functional currency other than the U.S. dollar; REIT asset test and qualification issues; and partnership and investment fund taxation matters.
He has also represented a number of clients in resolving tax controversies with IRS, including at the Appeals Office of the IRS and the U.S. Tax Court, and has worked successfully on behalf of clients in non-audit matters to secure IRS waivers of widespread information reporting and withholding errors and omissions.
Mr. Kester is a member of the Tax Sections of the Boston, District of Columbia and American Bar Associations.
Mr. Kester is a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Law Society of England and Wales and a member of the Management Committee of Goodwin Procter (UK) LLP.
(with honors, Order of the Coif)
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