Biography
Adam is the National Real Estate Tax Technical Leader at PwC LLP, and helps clients navigate the complicated tax world in which we live. Adam brings his experience and passion (yes, passion for tax) to help clients see the big picture from a tax perspective, while at the same time keeping an eye on the important details necessary to achieve the client’s particular objectives. Clients often comment that Adam has a keen ability to convey complicated tax concepts and that he is approachable and easy to work with. Adam has brought his practical business approach to assist sponsors of, and investors in, real estate funds on a wide range of formation and investment matters. He brings this approach to provide guidance and counsel to some of the most well-known fund families in connection with their acquisitions and to help design fund structures that address the various tax issues that affect fund sponsors and their investors. Adam also regularly advises many public and private REIT clients through their life cycle. In that capacity, Adam has worked on many REIT monetization, conversion and M&A transactions, PropCo/OpCo structures and IPOs and regularly works with REIT clients to address their day-to-day tax matters. Adam is a co-author of the treatise on Real Estate Investment Trusts for RIA’s Catalyst series and is a Contributor to the Guide to Global Real Estate Investment Trusts. He has also served as a faculty member for the Practicing Law Institute sessions for the Real Estate Tax Forum and the Real Estate M&A and REIT Transactions and has spoken on panels at REITWise. Adam not only has a passion for tax and providing assistance to clients but also enjoys mentoring younger tax professionals. In that vein, Adam has served as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Villanova University School of Law where he has taught classes on partnership taxation and the unrelated business income tax. Adam graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and received his B.S. with honors from Cornell University. Adam is an active member in the Tax Policy Advisory Committee of the Real Estate Roundtable and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. In his spare time, Adam enjoys spending time with his family, playing cards and board games, tennis, bicycling and movies.