Fred T Goldberg Jr

Fred Goldberg first joined Skadden, Arps in 1986, following two years as chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service. From 1989 until 1992, Mr. Goldberg served as commissioner of the IRS, and during 1992 he served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy. He returned to Skadden, Arps in December 1992. Mr. Goldberg advises clients as special counsel on a wide range of complex transactional and compliance matters. In addition to advice regarding novel tax administration issues, he has directed compliance and management reviews on behalf of senior executives and boards of directors of various companies. On a selective basis, Mr. Goldberg counsels clients on legislative matters. In recent years, Mr. Goldberg has represented clients and groups of companies on issues of industry-wide significance in administrative proceedings before the IRS and the U.S. Department of Treasury, including on behalf of companies in the following industries: airline, automotive, banking, consumer products, health care, heavy manufacturing, insurance, investment companies, pharmaceutical, professional services, telecommunications and utilities. Mr. Goldberg represents business, tax-exempt and individual clients during all phases of civil audit, administrative appeals and litigation. He also represents clients involved in IRS collection matters, clients subject to third-party IRS discovery proceedings and clients involved in IRS criminal investigations. Among the controversy matters he has worked on recently are post-Indopco capitalization issues; tax accounting issues; transfer pricing; IRS challenges to R&E and energy tax credit claims; placed in service issues; IRS challenges to various capital market transactions; the status of tax-exempt bonds; the examination of tax-exempt organizations; the tax treatment of corporate distributions and reorganizations; the valuation of going concerns; international restructuring transactions; the tax treatment of insurance contracts; and compliance with information reporting and withholding rules. Resident in Skadden’s Washington office, Mr. Goldberg was a member of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies National Commission on Retirement Policy, and executive director of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. Mr. Goldberg has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America.