Mr. Moorehead assists clients in a broad range of tax and business planning matters and in related public policy projects. In tax and business planning, he concentrates on matters affecting private investment funds and fund managers, including U.S. taxation of non-US investors and funds; swaps and other derivatives transactions; mergers and other business transactions; and US taxation of income earned by US-based businesses from their international operations.
Within the public policy area, Mr. Moorehead focuses on US regulatory and legislative initiatives involving federal tax issues; the regulation of financial products, including derivatives; and matters affecting investment funds, financial institutions and broker-dealers. He also represents clients in connection with Congressional investigations involving tax and financial issues.
Before joining Patton Boggs in 1984, Mr. Moorehead served as Chief Counsel (Republican) to the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate and as Vice President (Tax) and General Counsel to Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation. He also was an adjunct professor of law in the graduate tax program of Georgetown University. « less
Recipients
Chris Dodd
President & CEO of MPAA; former US Senator from CT
Kent Conrad
US Senator from North Dakota
George Allen
US Representative and Senator from Virginia
Bob Packwood
US Senator from Oregon
John William Warner
US Senator from Virginia
George H W Bush
41st US president
Chuck Grassley
US Senator and Representative from Iowa
Jean Carnahan
US Senator from Missouri
John Hubbard Chafee
US Senator from Rhode Island
Fred Dalton Thompson
US Senator from Tennessee
Calvin M Dooley
US Representative from California
Tom Harkin
US Senator and Representative from Iowa
Robert Guy Torricelli
US Representative and Senator from New Jersey
Richard Green Lugar
US Senator from Indiana
Paul E Kanjorski
US Representative from Pennsylvania
