Deirdre M. Harrington
Associate
dharrington@blaistaxlaw.com
+1 (617) 918-7087
Deirdre supports clients on a variety of domestic and cross-border corporate, partnership, and private equity tax issues, including with respect to mergers and acquisitions, CFC and PFIC considerations, tax treaty eligibility, and withholding obligations. Prior to joining Blais Halpert, Deirdre worked in New York City as a tax associate at Norton Rose Fulbright, where she assisted clients in drafting merger and acquisition documents, drafting tax-related disclosures in equity and debt offering documents, Internal Revenue Service and New York State audits, choice of entity, non-profit formation, and investment tax credit eligibility.
Deirdre earned her J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. Before law school, Deirdre was a paralegal at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and at Clifford Chance New York. Deirdre has a B.A. from Fordham University in International Political Economy and Spanish Language and Literature. She is fluent in Spanish.
Deirdre is originally from Sterling, MA and currently resides in Shrewsbury with her husband, James, and son. She practices Ashtanga yoga in her free time.
About Blais HALPERT TAX PARTNERS LLP:
Blais Halpert Tax Partners LLP is a transactional tax boutique focused on tax-sensitive structuring and implementation of high-value business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, growth company startup and financing, private equity and venture capital investments, fund formations, real estate, and executive compensation arrangements. We help structure, negotiate, and draft to ensure the most tax-efficient achievement of our clients’ objectives.
We are fluent in the most important business entities, from C and S corporations to partnerships and LLCs to investment and grantor trusts. Much of our work is international in nature, advising on cross-border acquisitions, sales, and investments.
A cornerstone of our practice is serving as tax co-counsel to corporate lawyers and non-U.S. law firms who need top-tier U.S. tax support for their clients’ business transactions. We regard our co-counsel as our partners in delivering seamless, practical, efficient, and valuable service to clients. Our practice is nationwide and we work regularly wherever one finds fast-growing and middle market companies, including Boston, New York, Miami, Chicago, Austin, Denver/Boulder, and Silicon Valley. In our international practice, our clients are from, or expanding to, diverse locales, including Toronto, London, Moscow, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Melbourne.
We offer a unique value proposition in providing sophisticated transactional tax advice to the middle market, which is underserved by many of the “specialty” law areas. We bring expertise, efficiency, an understanding of how tax advice integrates with non-tax legal and business objectives, and most of all, the ability to communicate tax law to non-tax lawyers and business clients.