Andrea M. Whiteway is a Principal in the National Tax Department of Ernst & Young LLP, based in Washington, DC, where she focuses on sophisticated tax planning for partnerships, REITs, and real estate transactions. She has substantial experience in the dispositions and acquisitions of real estate and operating businesses, complex partnership transactions, REIT tax status and structured dispositions involving REITs, corporate acquisitions and mergers, structuring private REITs, and forward and reverse like-kind exchanges. She co-chairs the NYU School of Professional Studies Federal Real Estate and Partnerships Tax Conference alongside Paul Wilner, an annual gathering she has co-led for many years. She was the first woman to serve as Chair of the Real Estate Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation and has served as Chair of the Federal Taxation of Real Estate Committee of the ABA Section of Real Property, Trusts and Estates. She is an ACTC Fellow and a Legal 500 and Chambers USA-ranked leader. Prior to EY, she was a principal at McDermott Will & Emery, a partner at Arnold & Porter, and held tax roles at Steptoe & Johnson, Miles & Stockbridge, and Arthur Andersen.