Federal Real Estate and Partnerships Tax Conference 2025 (Presented by NYU School of Professional Studies)

Glenn M. Johnson is a Principal in Ernst & Young LLP’s U.S. National Tax Department in Washington, DC, where he leads the U.S. PPP Infrastructure Tax Practice and serves as Director of Leasing Tax Services. He focuses on leasing, asset-based structured transactions, infrastructure finance, deferred like-kind exchanges, and captive leasing company structures, advising both developers and investors on a wide range of tax issues. He joined Ernst & Young in 1998 and has spent his entire career in the EY National Tax Department, becoming one of the firm’s leading authorities on leasing and infrastructure taxation. He is the former ABA Tax Section Chair of the Capital Recovery and Leasing subcommittee, a member of EY’s Federal Income Tax Committee, and leads EY’s Infrastructure Tax Committee. He has been a longtime member of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Federal Tax Committee for more than 13 years. He earned his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law School, his J.D., with honors, from Boston University School of Law, and his B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University.

Over 40 years’ experience advising clients on 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.

Nationally recognized tax lawyer focusing on transactional, controversy and tax policy matters with significant experience in mergers & acquisitions, private equity and real estate funds, qualified opportunity zone funds, bioscience, cross-border tax, partnerships, real estate, REITs, international investors, and S corporations.

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.

Former chairman of the Real Estate Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section and former vice chairman of the Tax Policy Advisory Committee of the Real Estate Roundtable, active in NAREIT Government Relations Committee.

National Real Estate Tax Technical Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers helping clients navigate complicated tax matters, assisting sponsors and investors in real estate funds on formation and investment matters, and advising public and private REIT clients through their life cycle.

Ryan P. McCormick is Senior Vice President and Counsel at The Real Estate Roundtable in Washington, DC, where he is responsible for managing the organization’s tax policy activities. He coordinates the Roundtable’s Tax Policy Advisory Committee — a group of 150 leading real estate tax experts including in-house tax directors, general counsel, CFOs of major real estate companies, and senior partners from national law and accounting firms — and created and directs the Real Estate Research Consortium, which commissions and supports academic and economic research on real estate taxation. Ryan joined the Roundtable in May 2013 following nearly 11 years in the U.S. Senate as a tax and economic policy advisor to Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Bob Graham, and Bill Nelson. In the 112th Congress, he served as Staff Director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth. Prior to the Senate, he practiced tax law at Miller & Chevalier Chartered and was editor-in-chief of the University of Texas International Law Journal. He was a Fulbright Scholar. He holds a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and previously served as a tax associate at Miller & Chevalier.

Partner in New York office and leader of Global Funds Tax Advisory Services Group and Homebuilding Industry Group with over 30 years of real estate, private equity, and infrastructure industry experience serving closed and open-end funds, public REITs, and home builders.

Richmond Managing Partner at Williams Mullen focusing on wealth transfer tax planning, business succession planning, income tax planning for individuals and businesses, and fiduciary litigation, counseling high net worth individuals, families, middle market business owners, institutional fiduciaries, family offices and charitable entities.

Partner in Federal Tax Services group of Washington National Tax Services practice specializing in tax accounting including accounting methods, timing of income and deductions, depreciation and amortization, capitalization issues, merger and acquisition transaction costs, and tangible property repair costs.

Global Co-Chair of Tax Controversy Practice at Latham & Watkins focusing on federal and state tax controversy and litigation, representing domestic and multi-national businesses, non-profits, and high global wealth individuals in sophisticated tax matters.

Jason B. Grover is Counsel in the Tax practice at Latham & Watkins LLP, based in the firm’s Chicago office. Jason resolves high-stakes disputes with the IRS on behalf of clients facing intractable tax controversies across a wide range of substantive issues. He pursues strategic solutions for taxpayers—including the world’s largest corporations, emerging companies, and high-net-worth individuals—in all stages of federal tax controversies, navigating complex audits (including those involving potential criminal exposure), contentious IRS Independent Office of Appeals conferences, and litigation before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and U.S. district courts. He helps clients secure the optimal outcome of a dispute, whether through creative IRS settlement or dogged litigation, and leverages particular knowledge of the procedural and substantive aspects of partnership audits—both under the legacy TEFRA regime and under the new BBA rules—to guide clients in this evolving landscape.