Co-Head of the Firm’s Tax Practice, Marcy Geller advises clients on tax aspects of a wide range of matters, including private investment fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, REITs and real estate transactions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings and bankruptcies. She advises private equity clients on tax matters related to formation of funds, including real estate opportunity and credit funds, and the structuring of investments by those funds, including closed-end, open-end, retail and semi-liquid funds in all asset classes, including real estate, infrastructure and credit.
Marcy is recognized as a leading tax lawyer by The Legal 500, Lawdragon and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which noted that she handles her clients’ “most complicated issues” and praised her for being “always ten steps ahead” and “really extraordinary.”
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Work Highlights
- Global Infrastructure Partners, a part of BlackRock, in connection with its investment in the $5 billion Delfin LNG Project, the formation of a U.S. fiber joint venture, and the sale of its stake in Lackawanna Energy Partners LLC for $940 million
- KKR in in connection with the sale of USI to Aon plc for a total consideration of $17 billion, its acquisition of Arctos for $1.4 billion, its acquisition of Barracuda, its sale of Apple Leisure Group to Hyatt for $2.7 billion, its sale of Audiobooks.com and KKR Denali Holdings in its sale of $680 million shares of common stock of AppLovin
- Pershing Square in its $5 billion IPO
- Rockpoint in its sale of a minority interest to Blackstone, on the formation of Rockpoint Growth and Income Funds II and III and Rockpoint Opportunities Fund VI and VII and with the establishment of their ADIA Form Platform
- Portfolio Advisors in its definitive agreement to merge with FS Investments, creating a $73 billion alternative investment firm
- Versum Materials, Inc. in its $6.5 billion sale to Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
- K2M Group Holdings, Inc. in its $1.4 billion acquisition by Stryker Corporation
- Entities affiliated with BlackRock’s Long Term Private Capital strategy in its strategic investment in Authentic Brands Group and Transaction Data Systems
- SiriusXM in its acquisition of Pandora and Automatic Labs
- KKR in its initial public offering of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust, its ¥61.5 billion senior notes offering of KKR & Co. Inc. and in the formation of KKR Real Estate Partners America II Fund, KKR Real Estate Partners Europe III, KKR Global Private Credit Fund and KKR Real Estate Credit Opportunity Partners III
- Centerbridge Partners with its formation and fundraising of Centerbridge Partners Real Estate Fund II, which raised $2.3 billion, with its recapitalization of Suntex, led by funds affiliated with Centerbridge and funds affiliated with Resilient Capital Partners and in its acquisition (alongside GIC) of INDUS Realty Trust for $868 Million
- Square Mile in the establishment of multiple investment funds, including Square Mile Core Credit Partners II, Square Mile Partners VI and Square Mile Tactical Partners III
Accolades
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Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
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The Legal 500 U.S.
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Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Tax Laywers
Education
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New York University School of Law, 2000 LL.M.
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New York University School of Law, 1997 J.D.
magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Annual Survey of American Law
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University of Pennsylvania, 1994 B.S.
magna cum laude
Associations
- Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Board of Directors of the Partnership Fund for New York City
- Executive Committee, Tax Section, New York State Bar Association
- Private Investment Fund Tax Forum
Co-Head of the Firm’s Tax Practice, Marcy Geller advises clients on tax aspects of a wide range of matters, including private investment fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, REITs and real estate transactions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings and bankruptcies. She advises private equity clients on tax matters related to formation of funds, including real estate opportunity and credit funds, and the structuring of investments by those funds, including closed-end, open-end, retail and semi-liquid funds in all asset classes, including real estate, infrastructure and credit.
Marcy is recognized as a leading tax lawyer by The Legal 500, Lawdragon and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which noted that she handles her clients’ “most complicated issues” and praised her for being “always ten steps ahead” and “really extraordinary.” She has presented at conferences sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, among others.
Marcy serves on the Board of Directors of the Partnership Fund for New York City and on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Tax Section. She was previously a David Rockefeller Fellow for New York City. Marcy received her J.D., magna cum laude, and LL.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, and her B.S., magna cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is admitted to practice in New York.