Russell J. Kestenbaum

Practice Areas

Russell Kestenbaum is a partner in the New York office of Milbank and Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Tax Group. Mr. Kestenbaum’s practice focuses on advising on tax issues relating to bankruptcies and out of court debt restructurings, tax aspects of IPOs (including UpREITs), mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), structuring for private equity funds, and debt issuances. Mr. Kestenbaum is a past member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, where he co-chaired the Committee on Bankruptcy and Operating Losses and authored several reports. He is a vice chair of the ABA Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries Section where he has co-authored semi-annual reports each year.