Rob Holo is Partner in the Firm's Tax Department.  Mr. Holo specializes in federal income taxation, with an emphasis on corporate mergers and acquisitions (including tax free reorganizations and spin-offs), cross-border tax matters, joint ventures, and capital markets and financing transactions.

The clients Mr. Holo has represented in merger and acquisition transactions include KKR, Blackstone, TPG, JPMorgan Chase and Lehman Brothers, Accenture and Walter Industries.  Mr. Holo has advised numerous banks, domestic and foreign corporations and investors in connection with the structuring of acquisitions and dispositions, with an emphasis on cross-border tax issues, as well on U.S. and cross-border financing transactions.  Additionally, Mr. Holo advises on many of the capital markets and joint venture transactions handled by the Firm in Asia, Latin America and Europe.  Representative clients include Mizuho, Merrill Lynch, the Government of Peru, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Mr. Holo joined the Firm in 1997 and became a partner in 2001.  He received his B.A. in 1987 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his J.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was elected Order of the Coif and was an Editor of the Law Review.  He was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer (Ninth Circuit) from 1991 to 1992.  He is admitted to practice in New York and California.

Honors/Associations

•	American Bar Association, Member, Tax Section
•	New York State Bar Association, Member, Tax Section

Publications

•	American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 Temporarily Defers Cancellation of Indebtedness Income for Debt Repurchases, Exchanges, Cancellations and Modifications
•	American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
•	The IRS Recently Announced That it Would No Longer Rule on Certain Issues in Spin-Off Transactions
•	IRS Liberalizes Regulations Defining the Scope of a Plan Under section 355(e)
•	Recent Proposed Regulations Defining the Scope of a Plan Under Section 355(e)
•	Final Regulations on the Treatment of Rent and Interest Under Section 467 Rental Agreements

Admissions

•	New York 1993
•	California 1996

Clerkships

•	Hon. Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1991-1992

Education

•	UCLA School of Law, 1991 J.D. UCLA Law Review, 1989-1991
•	University of California at Santa Cruz, 1987 B.A.