Jill E. Darrow

Qualifications and Career Profile

Jill E. Darrow is Head of the New York Tax Planning Practice. She concentrates her practice in tax law, with a focus on partnership transactions, financial services and real estate.

Ms. Darrow advises clients on all aspects of tax with a concentration in the areas of partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies, subchapter S corporations, regulated investment companies (mutual funds), hybrid companies, recording and publishing ventures, real estate investment trusts (REITs), public limited partnerships, publicly traded partnerships, real estate limited partnerships, partnership tender offers, partnership roll-ups, securities and commodities partnerships, hedge funds, passive activity loss issues, entity classification issues and passive investment income issues.

Associations and Committees

Ms. Darrow is a member of the Real Estate and Partnership Committees of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Financial Instruments and the Committee on Partnerships, Tax Section. Ms. Darrow was recently listed in “Top 100 New York Super Lawyers” in New York Super Lawyers (2008) and has been listed in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Lectures and Articles

Ms. Darrow is a lecturer and author on such topics as taxation of real estate transactions, partnership tax issues, hedge funds and securities.

Education and Bar Admissions

Ms. Darrow received her undergraduate degree (A.B., 1975) from Barnard College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law degree (J.D., 1978) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her LL.M in Taxation (1983) from the New York University Law School. She is admitted to practice in New York.