Robert D. Schachat is a Managing Director in BDO USA’s National Tax practice, where he focuses on all federal income tax aspects of real estate, including REIT, partnership, LLC, and S corporation formations, acquisitions, like-kind exchanges, development, leases, financings, workouts, dispositions, and liquidations. He is co-author (with Jim Lowy) of the CCH treatise Federal Taxation of Real Estate Investment Trusts — the definitive reference work on REIT taxation — and is a frequent author and speaker at real estate industry and tax conferences. He joined BDO in 2021 after 23 years in the National Tax Real Estate Group of a Big Four accounting firm and 12 years as a partner in a Manhattan law firm specializing in real estate taxation, bringing more than 40 years of total real estate tax experience to his current role. He has served as Chair of the Real Estate Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation, Vice Chair of the Tax Policy Advisory Committee of The Real Estate Roundtable, and Conference Chair of the NYU Like-Kind Exchange Tax Conference. He holds an S.B. from MIT and a J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law.