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Paul Issler

Paul
Issler

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pissler@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 213.229.7763

FAX:+1 213.229.6763

Los Angeles

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

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PRACTICE

Tax Emerging Companies Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Investment Funds

BIOGRAPHY

Paul S. Issler is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office. He is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group, with a practice emphasis on domestic and international corporate, limited liability company and partnership tax matters. Mr. Issler’s practice involves diversified representations of corporations, partnerships (including private equity funds), limited liability companies and their debt and equity investors and executives. He has extensive experience in tax planning for corporate and real estate acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations (taxable and tax free), unrelated business taxable income issues, securities offerings (including derivative securities and offerings by former S corporations), real estate investment trusts, venture capital investments and executive compensation. Mr. Issler also has extensive experience in representing insolvent or bankrupt entities and their creditors, including bankruptcy reorganizations and acquisitions of assets subject to bankruptcy proceedings.  The Best Lawyers in America® 2019 has selected him as a “Best Lawyer” in tax law.  Mr. Issler was selected as a ranked lawyer in the 2019 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Mr. Issler became associated with the firm in 1986, after receiving his law degree from the University of Southern California Law Center, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Managing Editor of the Southern California Law Review. Mr. Issler received his bachelor of science degree in business administration – accounting, summa cum laude, from California State University, Northridge. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Issler worked for a “Big Eight” accounting firm, performing financial audits of privately held businesses.

EDUCATION

University of Southern California - 1986 Juris Doctor

California State University - Northridge - 1983 Bachelor of Science

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Lawyers Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America® 2020
Client Alert - April 22, 2019 | IRS Issues Additional Guidance on Investing in Opportunity Zones
Client Alert - October 22, 2018 | IRS Provides Much Needed Guidance on Opportunity Zones through Issuance of Proposed Regulations
Client Alert - July 10, 2017 | California Supreme Court Upholds Los Angeles County’s Interpretation of Documentary Transfer Tax Act
Client Alert - November 15, 2016 | The Trump Presidency: Selected Initial Observations and Considerations
Client Alert - September 9, 2016 | IRS Releases Final Regulations Clarifying the Definition of Real Property for REITs
Client Alert - March 31, 2016 | District Court Issues Troubling Decision in Sun Capital Case: Private Equity Funds Formed “Partnership-in-Fact” and Were Engaged in “Trade or Business,” Liable for Withdrawal Liability Obligations of Portfolio Company
Client Alert - February 9, 2016 | Treasury Issues Temporary Regulations Regarding the Allocation of Partnership Foreign Tax Expenditures
Client Alert - December 29, 2015 | President Obama Signs Appropriations Bill Exempting Non-U.S. Pension Funds from FIRPTA, Taxing REIT Spinoffs, and Making Other Important Changes to the Taxation of U.S. Real Property Investments by Non-U.S. Investors and the REIT Rules
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
Client Alert - October 30, 2014 | Recent Court Decision Upholds Los Angeles County Assessor’s New Interpretation of Documentary Transfer Tax Act
Client Alert - October 2, 2008 | Financial Markets in Crisis: Section-By-Section Analysis of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
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