Jeffrey M. Trinklein is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is a member of the firm's International Tax Group.  He has extensive experience in U.S. and international taxation, with special emphasis on advice to foreign clients with investments in the U.S. and advice to U.S. clients with foreign operations. 

His areas of practice include advice to U.S. individuals and companies establishing investments outside the U.S., planning advice on worldwide investment structures and acquisition financing, and general U.S. corporate and partnership tax planning.  He has represented clients with tax structuring for a range of mergers and acquisition transactions, ranging from public company acquisitions, to private equity fund transactions, to the acquisition of a U.S. professional sports franchise.  He has also assisted foreign countries with the drafting of proposed legislation. Mr. Trinklein is listed in The Legal 500 US 2009 edition.

Mr. Trinklein joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1985 and has previously worked in the firm's Munich, London, Dallas and Orange County offices.  From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Trinklein was a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law, where he taught courses on U.S. taxation of international transactions and financial derivatives.  Mr. Trinklein has also served as an adjunct faculty member at the London Programme of the University of Detroit School of Law, and lectures and writes frequently on tax law topics.  He has a working knowledge of German and French.

Mr. Trinklein received his Juris Doctor, with honors in 1985 from the University of Virginia and his Bachelors degree in 1982 from the University of Chicago. Mr. Trinklein is a member of the California, Texas and New York State Bar Associations.

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