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Rachel Cantor
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Tax
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About
Provided by Rachel Cantor
Practice Areas
Rachel Cantor’s practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, as well as joint ventures, recapitalizations, and debt and equity restructurings.
Rachel has worked on numerous private equity, LBO, and merger and acquisition transactions ranging from several million dollars to several billion dollars for clients including: Madison Dearborn Partners, Audax Group, Wind Point Partners, Levine Leichtman, AE Industrial Partners and Accel KKR, among others.
Personal
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., with Honors; Comment Editor, University of Chicago Law Review; Yale University, B.S., Computer Science, cum laude.
Professional Memberships
Rachel is a current member and past chair of the Planning Committee for the University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference. She is a frequent speaker on tax topics.
Awards
Notable Gen X Leaders in Accounting, Consulting and Law
Crain's Chicago Business
2022
Chicago's Notable Women in Law
Crain's Chicago Business
2020
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