Gary A. Herrmann

Partner

Gary A. Herrmann is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Business and Finance Practice, with more than 20 years of experience in a broad spectrum of federal and state tax issues. Mr. Herrmann’s practice focuses on private investment funds, including buyout, venture capital, hedge and real estate funds, and other alternative investment vehicles. He also has substantial experience in the taxation of corporate acquisitions, spin-offs, other restructurings, corporate finance, partnerships, real estate and financial products. He has advised many corporations and partnership entities, ranging from startups to major public companies, as to stock option and other employee and executive compensation issues.

Mr. Herrmann advises some of the major investors in private equity, hedge and real estate funds and other alternative investments with respect to tax and economic issues associated with those investments. His practice includes advising clients on special issues faced by different classes of real estate investors, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, endowments, REITs and non-U.S. investors, including the unrelated business income tax (UBIT), debt-financed acquisitions and dealer activity. Mr. Herrmann also has advised a number of sponsors of real estate funds with respect to tax issues.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Herrmann was a senior tax partner at a large international law firm, where he played a significant role in the group’s involvement in the formation of more than 150 funds in 2005 and in their representation of a considerable number of the largest and most active global institutional investors in private investment funds.

Mr. Herrmann is admitted to practice in California.