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Dale Ponikvar is the senior corporate tax partner in the Tax Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP specializing in the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, cross-border transactions, corporate restructurings, capital markets transactions and outsourcing transactions. Mr. Ponikvar has represented clients such as Goldman Sachs, Cerberus, Harbinger and Silverpoint in significant private equity investments. Mr. Ponikvar was the lead tax lawyer to the Creditors Committee in the Enron and Refco bankruptcies, among many others.
Mr. Ponikvar is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and was the Co-Chair of its Committee on Corporate Reorganizations and the Co-Chair of its Committee on Bankruptcies. He was a member of the prestigious Tax Council of Bar of the City of New York. He is also a Vice-Chair of the Utility Committee of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Ponikvar has articles published in The Tax Lawyer, the Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Tax, and the PLI series "Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions". Mr. Ponikvar is listed in Chambers USA. He is a member of the Harvard Tax Club.
Mr. Ponikvar received his Bachelor's degree from Yale College in 1971, his Master's degree in philosophy from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in 1976 and his law degree from New York University in 1980. Mr. Ponikvar spent a year as an American Field Service exchange student with a German family in Hamburg and later studied for a year at La Sorbonne in Paris, France. He is fluent in German and French and conversant in Italian.
Mr. Ponikvar is a member of the Board and Legal Counsel to the American Council on Germany and is the U.S. Chairman of its Business Advisory Committee. Mr. Ponikvar is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. | 