Annie Jeong
Phone:
917-363-4830
Email:
ajeong@couchwhite.com
Practice Areas: Corporate & Commercial Transactions,
Education
Annie Jeong is Of Counsel to Couch White, LLP. She works collaboratively with the firm’s attorneys on selected tax and corporate matters, drawing on her deep experience advising closely held businesses, public and private companies, private equity funds, investment funds, entrepreneurs, and high‑net‑worth individuals. Annie’s prior experience includes practice in the New York office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and O’Melveny & Myers, LLP.
Ms. Jeong is the founder and principal of Jeong Law PLLC, an independent law firm. Through her Of Counsel relationship with Couch White, she provides strategic legal support on matters as agreed, while continuing to maintain a separate law practice through Jeong Law PLLC. Her relationship with the firm does not constitute employment, partnership, or equity participation.
Ms. Jeong is admitted to practice in New York and California and represents clients pursuant to separate written engagement arrangements.
Admissions
- New York State Courts
- State Bar of California
Professional Experience
- Leads a sophisticated tax practice with deep experience supporting corporate and partnership transactions
- Provides day-to-day general corporate advice to privately held business and their founders
- Assists clients on taxation issues related to national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions for corporations, partnerships and LLCs, entity formations and restructurings, financing transactions, debt restructurings, domestic and international investments, healthcare roll-up transactions, dissolutions, bankruptcies, founder issues, initial public offerings, and litigation tax matters
- At Cornell Law School, Annie worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant for professors of Cornell Law School. She also received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for the highest scoring student in partnership taxation and international sales law
- “Can a Regulation Survive Statutory Amendments?”, 149 Tax Notes 555 (October 26, 2015).
- “Shifting Basis Adjustments on Partnership Distributions?”, 134 Tax Notes 1296 (Mar. 5, 2012).
- “Aggregate vs. Entity: Dividends Received Through a Partnership”, 134 Tax Notes 849 (Feb. 13, 2012).
- “NOLs and COD: Important Topics in a Down Economy”, 125 Tax Notes 779 (2009).
- “Built-in Gain Regulations: One Method Spells Big Benefit”, 120 Tax Notes 7 (2008).
- “Applying the Attribution Rules to FIRPTA: Some Constructive Criticism”, 113 Tax Notes 167 (2006).
- “Foreign Partners Deserve Their Share of the P.I.E.: The Portfolio Interest Exemption as Applied to Partnerships”, 110 TAX NOTES 635 (2006).