•Kevin M. Jacobs is Co-Leader of the Restructuring Tax Service (RTS) and the National Tax Office Practice Leader with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Washington D.C. He brings more than 15 years of experience in tax matters in both the public and the private sectors.

•Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Jacobs was a Senior Technician Reviewer with the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) for more than six years, advising on tax issues such as tax attributes (earning and profits, recovery and allocation of stock basis, and section 108(b) attribute reduction), bankruptcies, corporate re-organizations and corporation-shareholder issues, liquidations, redemptions, spin-offs and consolidated returns.

•Mr. Jacobs was the principal Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) attorney on regulatory projects including the proposed section 382(h) regulations on built-in gains and losses, and debt-equity regulations. He provided substantial contributions to numerous other guidance projects, such as the limitation on interest deductions regulations, and assisted in overseeing the Corporate Division’s response to TCJA, including the coordination with Treasury’s Offices of Tax Legislative Counsel and International Tax Counsel.

•Mr. Jacobs earned a bachelor's degree in accounting, a master’s degree in accounting (taxation concentration), a JD (magna cum laude) from the University of Florida and an LLM in taxation from New York University. He is admitted to the District of Columbia and Florida Bars and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Florida and Colorado. Mr. Jacobs is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He speaks frequently  on attribute-related and corporate transaction tax matters and was the principal drafter of the ABA comments concerning Notice 2010-50 (the implications of fluctuations in value in determining whether there was an ownership change under Section 382).