David Foster

Practice Areas

David Foster is a partner in the Tax Disputes Practice in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. David advises a broad range of clients, including large corporations, private equity firms and hedge funds, partnerships, estates, exempt organizations and individuals, many of whom are subject to the IRS’ Global High Wealth initiative. His practice covers a diverse range of tax issues, including international tax and transfer pricing, TEFRA and BBA partnership audit and litigation procedures, taxation of financial products, estate and gift taxes, deferred compensation, voluntary disclosures and criminal tax.

David lectures regularly to in-house tax departments and professional associations. He is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and the American Bar Foundation. He also served as chair of the D.C. Bar’s Tax Audits and Litigation Committee and as co-chair of the ABA Tax Section’s Privileges Subcommittee of the Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee.

Career

Law Clerk, Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court (2006-2007); Law Clerk, Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2005-2006).

Personal

J.D., Harvard Law School, 2005 (Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review); A.B., Harvard University, Harvard College, 2000.