David A. Sausen is Counsel in Kaye Scholer’s Tax Department. His practice is broad-based, covering tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and limited liability companies, investment funds, leveraged leasing transactions, sovereign wealth funds, and cross-border transactions. He has substantial experience in working with clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and partnership restructurings, investment fund formations and restructurings, and IRS and New York tax controversy matters.
In addition, David has considerable experience in forming and advising tax-exempt organizations on various issues including private inurement, self-dealing, unrelated business taxable income, and excess benefit transactions. David also serves on the Pro Bono Committee at Kaye Scholer.
David is a past Secretary of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee on Taxation of Business Entities. The Committee addresses US and international tax issues relating to all business entities including corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.