Fred T. Goldberg Jr. — Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Mr. Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. is a Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, L.L.P. Mr. Goldberg joined Skadden, Arps in 1986, following two years as Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Goldberg served as Commissioner of the IRS and during 1992 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy. He returned to Skadden, Arps in December 1992. Working with his Tax Department colleagues in Skadden's Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and overseas offices, Mr. Goldberg's practice during the past several years has focused on advising clients as special tax counsel on sensitive matters and representing clients on tax controversies, IRS administrative and regulatory proceedings and tax legislation. He serves as Director of Children's National Health System. Mr. Goldberg advises clients as special counsel on a wide range of complex transactional and compliance matters. In addition to advice regarding novel tax administration issues, he has directed compliance and management reviews on behalf of senior executives and boards of directors of various companies. On a selective basis, Mr. Goldberg counsels clients on legislative matters. In recent years, Mr. Goldberg has represented clients and groups of companies on issues of industry-wide significance in administrative proceedings before the IRS and the U.S. Department of Treasury, including on behalf of companies in the following industries: airline, automotive, banking, consumer products, health care, heavy manufacturing, insurance, investment companies, pharmaceutical, professional services, telecommunications and utilities. Mr. Goldberg represents business, tax-exempt and individual clients during all phases of civil audit, administrative appeals and litigation. He represents clients involved in IRS collection matters, clients subject to third-party IRS discovery proceedings and clients involved in IRS criminal investigations. Among the controversy matters he has worked on are post-Indopco capitalization issues; tax accounting issues; transfer pricing; IRS challenges to R&E and energy tax credit claims; placed in service issues; IRS challenges to various capital market transactions; the status of tax-exempt bonds; the examination of tax-exempt organizations; the tax treatment of corporate distributions and reorganizations; the valuation of going concerns; international restructuring transactions; the tax treatment of insurance contracts; and compliance with information reporting and withholding rules. Mr. Goldberg was a Member of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS, a Member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies National Commission on Retirement Policy and Executive Director of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.