Overview
Colleen Kushner is senior counsel in the firm's Tax Group. She has been practicing law since 1992 when she joined Chapman and Cutler LLP.
Practice Focus
- Bond Counsel
- Debt Instruments
- GIC Providers
- Governmental Institutions and Agencies
- Health Care Finance
- International Transactions
- Investment Trusts and RICs
- Municipal Bond Tax Controversy
- Not-for-Profit and 501(c)(3) Organizations
- Not-for-Profit Health Care Finance
- Public Finance
- Public/Municipal Finance
- Special Tax Counsel
- State/Local Tax Issues
- Tax Lobbying
- Taxation
Admitted
Illinois, 1992
Education
Villanova University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1992
- Staff Member, Villanova Law Review
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S., Accounting, magna cum laude, 1989
Insights
Publications
- Co-author, "Tax Classification of an LLC Raises a Number of Issues," appears in the Journal of Limited Liability Companies,Summer 1994
- Co-author, "Final OID Contingent Payment Regulations Continue to Distinguish Tax-Exempt Obligations," appears in the Journal of Taxation, Vol. 85, No. 4, October 1996