Jessica L. Billeter

Associate
jbilleter@blaistaxlaw.com
+1 (617) 918-7088

Jessica supports clients on a variety of domestic and cross-border tax matters involving mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital funds, restructuring, tax withholding obligations, state tax clearance, and qualified small business stock.

Before joining Blais Halpert, Jessica worked as a tax associate at Lowenstein Sandler in New York City, where she advised on tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, domestic and cross-border investments, entity formation and operations, nonprofit status, and state and foreign tax audits.  She drafted merger and acquisition documents, tax disclosures for private equity and hedge fund clients, and specialized opinions and memoranda.

Jessica earned her J.D. from Duke University School of Law.  While in law school, Jessica worked as a law clerk at the Duke University Start-Up Ventures Clinic, assisting small businesses with entity formation, contracts, employment matters, and nonprofit qualification. She also worked as a law clerk at Bay Area Legal Aid, in Northern California, assisting low-income clients with matters related to housing and re-entry.  Jessica has a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in Economics and Psychology.

Jessica is originally from Huntington Beach, California and currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband, Evan.  Jessica enjoys reading, running, and watching the Green Bay Packers.

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.