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honors + affiliations

Member, American Bar Association, Tax Section

Member, New York State Bar Association, Tax Section

Member, Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law School 

bar admissions

  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Tax Court
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Kenneth S. Kail
Partner


Email: kkail@morganlewis.com
New York
101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6950
Fax: 212.309.6001

Kenneth S. Kail is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Tax Practice. Mr. Kail's practice involves transactional tax planning for federal and international tax matters.

Mr. Kail has a broad-based practice in corporate tax matters (including stock and asset acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-offs, venture acquisitions, incorporations, shareholder and inter-corporate redemptions, liquidations and earnings and profits), investments (including REMICs, pass-through securities, asset-backed securities and offshore funds), securities offerings (including ADR, IDR, Eurobond and Yankee bond), U.S. activities of foreign taxpayers (including branch tax, foreign investment in U.S. real property, earnings stripping, transfer pricing, withholding and treaties), foreign activities of U.S. taxpayers (including offshore joint ventures, controlled foreign corporations, foreign personal holding companies, passive foreign investment companies and foreign tax credits), executive compensation and employee share bonus arrangements (including stock options and stock purchase plans), corporation deductions, charitable organizations and controversy work (tax protests and Tax Court petitions).

Mr. Kail is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Tax Court.

education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1980, J.D.
  • State University of New York at Albany, 1977, B.S.