Scott M. Levine

Career

Scott Levine advises on the tax aspects of structuring corporate transactions, including cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and other divestitures, restructurings, financings, and joint ventures. Additionally, he has negotiated private letter rulings with the Internal Revenue Service in the international, corporate, financial instruments, and energy credit tax areas. Scott is currently an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. and the International Tax Center at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he teaches courses on U.S. corporate and international taxation.

Scott is an active member of the ABA’s Tax Section, a former Chair of the ABA Tax Section’s Corporate Committee, a current Section Counsel and Nominating Committee member, and the primary author of several ABA comment letters including the ABA’s letters. Scott was a two-term member of the D.C. Bar Tax Section's Steering Committee, a former Chair of the Tax Section’s Corporate Tax Committee, and the recipient of the DC Bar’s inaugural Tax Trailblazer Award in 2022. He has been the Chair of the DC Bar’s Annual Tax Reform Conference since its inception in 2017. Scott is also a co-chair of the Law Firm Anti-racism Alliance’s Tax Working Group.