Amanda Nussbaum

About Amanda Nussbaum

Amanda H. Nussbaum is the chair of Proskauer\'s Tax Department and also is a member of the Private Investment Funds Group. Her practice concentrates on planning for and the structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, including venture capital, buyout, real estate and hedge funds, as well as advising those funds on investment activities and operational issues. She also represents many types of investors, including tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors, with their investments in private investment funds. Amanda has significant experience structuring taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and stock and debt offerings. She also counsels both sports teams and sports leagues with a broad range of tax issues. In addition, Amanda advises not-for-profit clients on matters such as applying for and maintaining exemption from federal income tax, minimizing unrelated business taxable income, structuring joint ventures and partnerships with taxable entities and using exempt and for-profit subsidiaries. Amanda has co-authored with Howard Lefkowitz and Steven Devaney the New York Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual, which is published by Data Trace Publishing Co.

Experience

1. Partner

   Proskauer Rose Llp

   Sep 1998 — Present

Education

• New York University School of Law

  LLM, Taxation

  1999 — 2003

• Harvard Law School

  JD

  1995 — 1998

• Yeshiva University

  BA, Political Science

  1991 — 1995