Don Shiman is a partner in the Tax Practice Group in the New York office of Haynes and Boone. He works on a wide variety of tax matters, such as those that relate to mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, security offerings, private equity funds, hedge funds, real estate acquisitions, cross-border structuring and cross border acquisitions.

Don works with clients from a broad range of industries, such as food, healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and technology. He regularly advises clients that operate in the energy sector such as private equity funds, master limited partnerships and corporations.

Don has authored several articles relating to recent changes to federal tax law.

Bar Admissions
New York
New Jersey

Education
LLM, Taxation, New York University School of Law, 2017
J.D., Rutgers School of Law - Newark, 2012, summa cum laude; Order of the Coif; Rutgers Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award in Tax Law; Editor, Rutgers Law Review
Master's Degree, Rabbinic Studies, Beth Medrash Govoha, 2006
B.A., Talmudic Law, Ner Israel Rabbinical College, 2003

Significant Accomplishments
Represented a leading provider of mobility solutions in its strategic acquisition of another provider, enabling it to greatly expand its services and reach.

Represented a physical metals and minerals commodity merchant in the sale of its majority interest.

Represented a private equity fund with a focus on investments in the global financial services industry in its formation with capital commitments more than $4 billion.

Represented a major local broadcast television and digital media company in its merger into a public company.

Represented a foreign company in its issuance of multiple Eurobonds worth $2.15 billion.

Represented a private equity fund in the sale of its leading health care service company in a cash transaction valued at $1 billion.

Represented a real estate private equity fund in its formation with more than $1 billion in capital commitments.

Represented a private equity fund with a focus on investments in mature companies in its formation with more than $5 billion in capital commitments.

Represented a private equity fund focused on investments in middle-market companies undergoing a fundamental change in capital structure, strategy, operations or growth in its formation with more than $2 billion in capital commitments.

• Business Tax Provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)

  By Don Shiman |March 2020

• Treasury Department Releases Proposed Section 956 Regulations Relating to Foreign Subsidiary Credit Support Arrangements

  By Don Shiman |November 2018

• Supreme Court Puts on its Summer Flip Flops

  By Don Shiman |June 2018