Charles Kaufman

Charles Kaufman focuses on transactions involving the taxation of partnerships, real estate investment trusts, and other passthrough entities. He advises private equity funds and tax-exempt entities on their investment activities and has experience advising both the sponsors of, and investors in, all types of private investment vehicles. 

Charles has advised clients with respect to numerous real estate transactions, corporate joint ventures, project finance transactions, securitization transactions, partnership restructurings and workouts, and cross-border financings and investments. In addition, he advises financial institutions in structuring and implementing structured financing and derivatives transactions.

Before joining KPMG, Charles was a tax associate at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. His practice focused on financial products, cross-border financing transactions, derivatives, capital markets transactions and corporate transactions.

Charles has an LLM degree in taxation from the New York University School of Law, a JD degree from Columbia Law School, and a BA degree in economics form the City University of New York at Queens College.

About the KPMG Passthroughs group

The Passthroughs group is responsible for providing insight to KPMG professionals and clients regarding the federal taxation of partnerships, real estate investment trusts, and S corporations across all major industries. In addition, the Passthroughs group advises in specialty areas such as like-kind exchanges, oil and gas, leasing, and excise taxes. Client services include transaction structuring, the issuance of opinions, and requesting private letter rulings.