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Hatef Behnia

Partner

CONTACT INFO

hbehnia@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 213.229.7534

FAX:+1 213.229.6534

Los Angeles

333 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197 USA

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PRACTICE

Tax

BIOGRAPHY

Hatef Behnia is a partner in Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group.  During his 30 years of practice with the firm, Mr. Behnia has specialized in taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, derivative securities, partnership transactions, start-up and venture capital investments, and taxation of special entities such as S corporations, REITs and financial institutions.  He has successfully represented taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service in cases involving significant audit adjustments.

Mr. Behnia graduated from Reed College in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics.  He received his MBA in 1977 from Stanford Graduate School of Business and received his law degree in 1981 from the University of Southern California Law Center.  Mr. Behnia was a member of the Order of the Coif and Note and Article Editor of the Southern California Law Review.

Mr. Behnia has been selected by Chambers and Partners as a Leading Tax Lawyer in California for its 2005 through 2018 Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers directories.  He has been named one of the Leading Tax Lawyers by U.S. Legal 500  for 2008 through 2018.  From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Behnia has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the fields of Litigation Controversy – Tax and Tax Law.  He was also recognized by Who’s Who Legal in the field of corporate tax for 2018.

EDUCATION

University of Southern California - 1981 Juris Doctor

Stanford University - 1977 MBA

Reed College - 1975 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - August 1, 2018 | Who’s Who Legal Recognizes Nine Gibson Dunn Partners
Firm News - July 16, 2018 | Legal 500 Names 10 Gibson Dunn Partners to its US Hall of Fame
Firm News - June 18, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2018 U.S. Legal 500
Firm News - May 9, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Earns 70 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2018
Client Alert - May 31, 2016 | M&A Report – Reverse Morris Trusts Revisited
Client Alert - February 9, 2016 | Treasury Issues Temporary Regulations Regarding the Allocation of Partnership Foreign Tax Expenditures
Client Alert - November 12, 2015 | President Obama Signs Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, Sweeping Aside Rules That Have Governed Tax Audits of Partnerships Since 1982
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