Patrick Kessler

About Patrick Kessler

Tax partner leading KPMG\'s Houston M&A Tax practice with over 18 years of experience advising private equity and strategics on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures ranging in size from several million to $45 billion.Expertise includes developing, modeling, and implementing tax-efficient legal entity structures, performing buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence, transaction agreement review, post-acquisition integration, and carve-out financial statement analysis. Tax due diligence experience includes U.S. federal and state income taxes; gross receipts taxes; sales and use taxes; payroll taxes; excise and severance taxes; and unclaimed property. Advises on cross-border acquisition structuring, consolidated return group tax planning (i.e, earnings and profits and stock basis analyses), net operating loss preservation under Section 382, troubled company tax advisory (i.e, debt modifications, cancellation of debt income, and attribute reduction analyses), and transaction cost analyses.Previously, part of KPMG’s Business Tax Services practice providing clients income tax compliance and consulting services, including tax return preparation, ASC 740 preparation and review, and accounting methods and credits services.

Experience

1. Partner, m & a Tax

   KPMG US

   Jul 2007 — Present · Houston, TX, US

Education

• Mays Business School - Texas A&M University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting

• Mays Business School - Texas A&M University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Taxation

Skills

• Due Diligence
• Partnership Taxation
• Tax Research
• Corporate Tax
• Property Tax
• International Tax
• S Corporations
• Tax
• Financial Reporting
• State Tax
• Tax Accounting
• Auditing
• M&a Tax
• Public/Private Partnerships
• Accounting
• Sales & Use Tax