Andrew M.Eisenberg

Andrew Eisenberg has advised clients for the past 25 years on federal income tax issues related to corporate mergers and acquisitions. His practice includes taxable and tax-free stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, post-acquisition restructurings, incorporation transactions, liquidating and non-liquidating distributions, application of the consolidated return regulations, and general tax consequences of transactions between shareholders and corporations. Andrew protects client interests in the drafting of tax provisions of deal documents. He also has extensive experience practicing before the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service, including representing clients in the private letter ruling process.

Andrew advised Reynolds American Inc in its $49 billion combination transaction with British American Tobacco, Parker-Hannifin in its $4.3 billion acquisition of CLARCOR, Intersil in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Renesas Electronics, Newell Brands in its $16 billion acquisition of Jarden, and Itron in its $830 million acquisition of Silver Spring Networks.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Andrew was a partner in the national tax office of a Big Four accounting firm and an attorney-advisor in the Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) of the Internal Revenue Service, where his responsibilities included drafting income tax regulations and other published guidance. Andrew is the lead author of Federal Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders (Wolters Kluwer 2012). He is an adjunct professor of taxation at Georgetown University Law Center and teaches advanced corporate reorganizations. Andrew also speaks frequently on PLI, TEI, and various bar association panels on taxation topics.