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Melanie Gnazzo is a partner in the Tax Department and a member of our Asset Securitization and our Lease Finance Practice Groups. She also serves on the firm's management committee. She has been practicing law since 1985. Ms. Gnazzo represents clients engaged in mortgage and asset securitizations and other structured financings, leasing transactions, REIT offerings and other financial asset portfolio transactions. She has considerable experience providing both tax and corporate advice in a wide range of financial transactions. Ms. Gnazzo has served on the Executive Committee of the Tax Section of the California Bar Association, as Chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of that Section, and as a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Tax Section Financial Transactions Committee. She is also a regular speaker at industry forums on tax, leasing and securitization matters. Before joining the firm, Ms. Gnazzo was a founding shareholder of the law firm of Gnazzo Thill, P.C. (formed in 1992 as Giancarlo & Gnazzo and combined with Chapman and Cutler LLP in June 2003). Prior to that, Ms. Gnazzo was an associate in the tax department of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. | 