Alison Skaife

Partner Tax

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Alison Skaife

Overview

Alison Skaife is a tax partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Alison focuses her practice on the tax aspects of complex business transactions and reorganizations, with a particular concentration on real estate transactions, private equity and real estate fund formation, and REITs and real estate joint ventures, as well as mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and bankruptcy restructurings.

Silversmith Capital Partners in its investment in Unily

Shamrock Capital Advisors in its sale of Giant Creative Strategy LLC

Clearlake Capital Group in its investment in Lytx, Inc.

MidOcean Partners in its sale of Agilex Flavors and Fragrances Inc. to Firmenich SA

MidOcean Partners and Penton in the $1.56 billion sale of Penton to Informa plc

CEB in its $275 million acquisition of Evanta Ventures, Inc.

Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Office of General CounselSpring 2013

United States Securities and Exchange CommissionSummer 2011

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Summer Associate, 2012

Ernst & Young LLP, Tax Services Intern, Winter 2010

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Thought Leadership

Seminars

“Charity Checkpoints - Legal Steps to Forming a 501(c)(3) in Illinois,” The Law Project Emerging Nonprofit Certificate of Training Program (2014)

Memberships & Affiliations

Associates Board, Ladder Up

Associate Board, CARPLS

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2013Illinois

Education

  • Cornell Law SchoolJ.D.cum laude2013

    Cornell Law Review, Editor

    Frederic H. Weisberg Prize for Constitutional Law

    Legal Information Institute Supreme Court Bulletin, Associate

  • Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of BusinessM.Acc.2010
  • Tulane UniversityB.S., Management, Business & Political Economymagna cum laude2010
    Beta Gamma Sigma