Robert Liquerman

Robert Liquerman is a principal in KPMG LLP’s Washington National Tax Practice, Corporate Tax Group, specializing in matters under Subchapter C of the Internal Revenue Code.  The responsibilities of this position include furnishing tax advice to KPMG partners, employees, and clients, obtaining private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service, instructing continuing education courses, and furnishing tax opinion letters regarding mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, liquidating and nonliquidating corporate distributions, discharge of indebtedness, bankruptcies and workouts. 

Rob was previously employed as an attorney by the Internal Revenue Service, Office of the Chief Counsel, Corporate Division.  In this position, he drafted treasury regulations, private letter rulings, technical advice memoranda, closing agreements, responses to congressional inquiries, field service advices, and memoranda of law. Prior to his government experience, Rob was a senior tax associate in the mergers and acquisition group and the insurance group in the New York office of another big four accounting firm.

Rob is an adjunct professor of law in the LL.M. program at the Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches a course on the Federal Taxation of Bankruptcy and Workouts.  He also previously served as an adjunct professor in the LL.M. program at The College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law.  He is also the co-author of the Bankruptcy & Insolvency Taxation treatise.  Rob holds an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law; a J.D. from St. John’s University, School of Law; and a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton.