Joshua T. Brady is a partner in the Business Tax practice. He advises clients on a wide variety of tax matters involving corporations, partnerships, and their owners and investors. Josh is a recognized expert on the taxation of mergers and acquisitions, distributions, financings, restructurings, and corporations filing consolidated returns. Josh currently serves as the Vice Chair of the D.C. Bar Taxation Section Corporation Tax Committee. He is a frequent speaker on corporate and other tax matters.
Josh has advised both public and private clients on a number of sophisticated acquisition and disposition structures, including tax-free mergers, tender offers, going-private transactions, and cross-border joint ventures. Josh also has extensive experience in some of the largest public spin-offs and split-offs, including spin-offs attendant to mergers, joint ventures, private equity investments, and cash-rich split-offs.
Josh regularly advises high net-worth individuals and their financial advisors on the tax aspects of business investments and complex financial transactions.
Josh also represents taxpayers before the Treasury and IRS on a variety of tax policy issues involving proposed legislation, regulations, and other guidance. A large part of his practice involves obtaining IRS private letter rulings on novel transactions. A key aspect of Josh’s success is his reputation among attorneys within the Treasury and IRS.
Josh joined Ivins, Phillips & Barker as a partner in 2008. Prior to joining the firm, Josh was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group in the Washington National Tax office of KPMG LLP, where he specialized in corporate tax matters. Prior to joining KPMG, Josh was an associate in the tax group of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Before law school, Josh was a research analyst at the Office of Federal Tax Services of Arthur Andersen LLP, where he specialized in transfer pricing and other tax valuation matters.
Josh also has served as an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches corporate taxation. Josh also is a volunteer in the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program, assisting low- and moderate-income taxpayers and military personnel on income tax matters.
Adjunct Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Vice Chair, D.C. Bar Taxation Section Corporation Tax Committee
Yale Law School, 1999, J.D.,
Georgetown University, 1994, A.B., Economics, magna cum laude
Maryland
District of Columbia