David E. Cowling
Partner
Dallas
Tel: 1.214.969.2991
Fax: 1.214.969.5100
Email:
decowling@jonesday.com
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David Cowling chairs the Firm's state and local tax practice and its e-commerce tax practice. His corporate, partnership, and individual tax practice includes extensive federal, state, and local income and franchise, sales and property tax audit planning, tax class action defense, and litigation experience; complex multijurisdictional individual tax and compensation planning; tax planning for the acquisition and disposition of businesses; tax planning for distressed businesses prior to, in, and emerging from bankruptcy proceedings; structuring of real estate, oil and gas, entertainment, and equipment leasing transactions; tax planning in connection with public and private securities offerings; and tax planning for a wide variety of tax-exempt bond offerings.
David is listed in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and was selected by D Magazine as one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas." He is a member of the BNA Tax Management State Tax Advisory Board, the CCH State Tax Advisory Board, the State Bar of Texas (Tax Section), and the District of Columbia Bar (Taxation Section).
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Texas, District of Columbia, and New York
Education
Texas Tech University (National Merit Scholar; B.A. with honors 1973); The University of Texas at Austin (Order of Barristers; J.D. 1976); New York University (LL.M. 1977)