M. EDWARD MISHOW
Partner
 
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Telephone:    (949) 435-4309
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Practice Areas:
Taxation; Partnership/LLC Matters; Real Estate and Corporate Transactions
 
Description of Practice:
 
Ed has been the head of Voss, Cook & Thel LLP's Tax Department since 1987.  Ed specializes in the tax and entity structuring areas and his experience in those areas include corporate, "flow-through entity" (i.e., partnerships and limited liability companies) and individual tax planning, including choice of entity considerations, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers and other reorganizations, debt restructurings, and tax controversy litigation.

Because most tax planning for real estate involves "flow-through entities"  (i.e., partnerships and limited liability companies), Ed has over the years also become an expert on partnership and limited liability law, even outside the context of tax planning.  Thus, a significant portion of Ed's work involves formation, structuring and operating issues for "flow-through entities," including partnerships and limited liability companies.  

Ed and James G. Damon, Litigation Partner, handled the precedent setting case of Wertin v. Franchise Tax Board (1998)68 Cal. App. 4th 961, review denied (3/31/99), in which the California Franchise Tax Board (i) was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to our Firm's client, and (ii) was required to alter the manner in which it makes assessments in the future.  The Court in that case also ordered the Franchise Tax Board to pay all of our client's attorneys' fees.
 
Ed began his career with the Los Angeles office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, one of the largest firms in the country, and has been with Voss, Cook & Thel LLP since 1984.
 
Ed received his law degree from Harvard University in 1981, and his undergraduate degree (B.S., Business Administration, Concentration in Accounting) in 1978 from Washington University in St. Louis.