Steven Garden is an associate in the Tax Transactions group of the Chicago office. Steven represents clients on a wide range of tax matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of businesses, domestic and international corporate structure planning and restructuring, securities offerings, structured finance transactions, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and cross-border transactions (such as outbound investment and operation in foreign jurisdictions and foreign investment in the United States including under the Foreign Investment Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA)). Steven joined Mayer Brown in 2007.  Steve earned his LLM in Taxation from Northwestern University School of Law LLM in Taxation, with honors ; Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, JD, with honors, 2006, Senior Associate, Chicago-Kent Law Review, Dean's List; Hebrew Theological College, BA, with high honors, 2002, Dean's List.

Jeff Maydew is a partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP.  His practice focus is on domestic and international tax planning.  Mr. Maydew has more than ten years of experience representing U.S. and foreign-based multinational organizations.  His area of expertise is in business taxation, including particularly domestic and international tax planning for mergers, acquisitions and other major corporate transactions.  His practice also includes private ruling requests, audit and tax controversy matters.  He represents clients in the aerospace, automotive, consumer products, e-commerce, electronics, petrochemicals and other industries. Publications include “New Regulations Address ‘Stockless DS’ and other Reorganizations of Controlled Subsidiaries,” Practical U.S./International Tax Strategies, Vol. 11, No. 4 (February 28, 2007); “IRS Issues Final Regulations on Capitalizing Amounts Paid for Intangibles,” (B&M Tax News and Developments (February 2004); “Recent Developments for Using a Target’s NOLs,” (The Tax Advisor, July 1999). Mr. Maydew has taught courses in International Taxation as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center LL.M program. Mr. Maydew received his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center; his J.D., law review, with honors from University of Iowa College of Law, and his B.S., Phi Beta Kappa from Iowa State University.

Brian Reed is a senior manager in Ernst & Young LLP’s National Tax Mergers and Acquisitions group, Transaction Advisory Services practice, based in Washington, D.C. He focuses on advising clients on internal restructuring transactions, corporate acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, reorganizations, spin-offs, consolidated return issues, and cross-border transactions. Brian obtained his Masters of Science in Accountancy and his Bachelors of Science in Finance from the University of Akron. Brian Reed is a senior manager in Ernst & Young LLP’s National Tax Mergers and Acquisitions group, Transaction Advisory Services practice, based in Washington, D.C. He focuses on advising clients on internal restructuring transactions, corporate acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, reorganizations, spin-offs, consolidated return issues, and cross-border transactions. Brian obtained his Masters of Science in Accountancy and his Bachelors of Science in Finance from the University of Akron.

Gary Scanlon is a manager in Ernst & Young’s International M&A Tax group in Chicago. He concentrates his practice in the area of Subchapter C, with a particular focus on repatriation planning and cross-border M&A transactions. Before moving to Chicago, Gary was a member of Ernst & Young’s National M&A Tax group based in Washington, D.C.   Gary has authored or co-authored several publications, including a New York State Bar Association report on “overlap” transactions, a University of Chicago report on the movement of attributes in taxfree reorganizations, and a reoccurring column on various cross-border M&A issues entitled “RuM&Ations.” He has appeared on numerous cross-border M&A panels. In 2006, Gary “thru-hiked” the entire 2174.6 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine. During the 5 and a half month sojourn, Gary had the good fortune of meeting his future wife, a fellow thru-hiker. He currently participates in Junior Achievement, an organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. Gary received a BA in Classics from Ohio University (1998), a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (2002), and an LLM in Taxation from the Northwestern University School of Law (2008). 

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