Latham & Watkins LLP

The Washington DC office of Latham & Watkins LLP is home to its ‘competent and creative’ tax controversy practice. The firm continues to build on its impressive track record of success in litigation in the Tax Court, the Court of Federal Claims, District Courts, Courts of Appeal, the US Supreme Court, and state courts, and continues to new precedents. In a high-profile case following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which enables courts to challenge regulations, the firm successfully challenged federal rules issued in the wake of 2017 tax reform concerning how US domestic corporations are taxed on income related to controlled foreign corporations, a matter led by Jean Pawlow. Miriam Fisher, who chairs the global tax controversy practice, recently acted for Occidental Petroleum in a Tax Court matter concerning the largest environmental remediation settlement in history. Brian McManus, who is also chair of the Boston tax team, focuses his DC practice on controversy matters with broader national tax policy implications. Joshua Wu and Andrew Strelka are also key practitioners.