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Simon Friedman is a tax partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He has extensive experience in all areas of tax law matters with an emphasis on partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, and alternative energy. He joined Milbank's Los Angeles office in 1997 after serving for 10 years in the Firm's New York headquarters. During his career at Milbank, Mr. Friedman has had primary tax responsibility for structuring numerous funds, including "mark to market" hedge funds, funds specializing in debt, including high yield and distressed debt, venture capital and technology funds, real estate funds, and funds investing in infrastructure and power projects. He has also advised these funds on acquisitions, sales and debt restructurings. Mr. Friedman has represented numerous debtors and creditors in numerous bankruptcies, including American Health Care, PSE&G, World Com and Eagle Picher. He assisted in the reorganization of Rockefeller Center. In the field of mergers and acquisitions, he has represented both buyers and sellers of public companies, private corporations, S-corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies in both taxable and tax-free acquisitions, dispositions, and spin-offs. The businesses involved in these transactions have included high tech companies, television and radio stations, chemical companies, broker-dealers, and casinos. Mr. Friedman has represented sponsors, tax equity and debt in connection with the purchase or construction of facilities generating electricity through the use of wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Friedman was a member of the New York State Bar Association, where he served on a number of Tax Section committees. He also served as a member of the New York City Bar Association. he is a member of the New York and California Bar. Mr. Friedman received a Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He also has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Yale University and B.A. degrees from King's College, Cambridge and from Columbia College.
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