Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini, Hershel was a principal in the Washington National Tax practice of KPMG, and prior to that, he was a tax partner at a large NY-based law firm for 17 years.
Hershel Wein is Senior Of Counsel in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he advises on the tax aspects of transactions involving partnerships, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and other pass-through entities. He has also advised clients on numerous tax credit and alternative energy transactions, project finance transactions, real estate transactions, corporate joint ventures, partnership and corporate restructurings and workouts, and cross-border financings and investments. He advises financial institutions in structuring and implementing structured finance and derivatives transactions, pension funds and other tax-exempt entities in their investment activities, and sponsors of, and investors in, all types of private investment vehicles.
Before joining Wilson Sonsini and since 2012, Hershel was a principal in the Washington National Tax practice of KPMG, in its New York office. Prior to KPMG, he was a tax partner at a large New York-based law firm for 17 years.
Hershel Wein is Senior Of Counsel in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he advises on the tax aspects of transactions involving partnerships, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and other pass-through entities. He has also advised clients on numerous tax credit and alternative energy transactions, project finance transactions, real estate transactions, corporate joint ventures, partnership and corporate restructurings and workouts, and cross-border financings and investments. He advises financial institutions in structuring and implementing structured finance and derivatives transactions, pension funds and other tax-exempt entities in their investment activities, and sponsors of, and investors in, all types of private investment vehicles.
Before joining Wilson Sonsini and since 2012, Hershel was a principal in the Washington National Tax practice of KPMG, in its New York office. Prior to KPMG, he was a tax partner at a large New York-based law firm for 17 years.
Hershel is the author of "The Private REIT: Selected Tax Issues," "Tax Credit Investments and the Ossification of the Economic Substance Doctrine," and "Corporate Allocations and their Constraints: Allocating the Income of Corporate Pass-Through Entities," articles that appear each year in the Partnership Tax Practice Series and the Corporate Tax Practice Series (Practicing Law Institute).
He has also authored articles on the tax treatment of investments in alternative energy and other transactions.
Hershel is the author of "The Private REIT: Selected Tax Issues," "Tax Credit Investments and the Ossification of the Economic Substance Doctrine," and "Corporate Allocations and their Constraints: Allocating the Income of Corporate Pass-Through Entities," articles that appear each year in the Partnership Tax Practice Series and the Corporate Tax Practice Series (Practicing Law Institute).
He has also authored articles on the tax treatment of investments in alternative energy and other transactions.