Victor Hollender

Practice Areas

Victor Hollender is co-head of the firm’s global Tax Group. He advises on a wide range of U.S. and international tax matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, cross-border financings, restructurings, spin-offs, initial public offerings and complex capital markets transactions.

Mr. Hollender regularly advises publicly traded corporations, financial institutions and fund managers in their tax planning. He also represents a number of foreign governments, foreign pension funds and sovereign wealth funds in private equity and real estate investments.

Publications

Mr. Hollender lectures in continuing legal education programs and is a contributing author to the Practising Law Institute’s Federal Income Taxation Seminar on topics relating to financial products, partnerships and joint ventures.

His recent publications include: "New IRS Ruling Guidelines Significantly Impact Tax-Free Spin-Offs" (Skadden Publication, May 17, 2024); "Newly Proposed Regulations on Stock Buyback Excise Tax Largely Adopt Approach From Initial IRS Guidance" (Skadden Publication, April 18, 2024); "IRS Makes Permanent Its Fast-Track Corporate Private Letter Rulings" (Skadden Publication, July 27, 2023)

Personal

Mr. Hollender has been repeatedly named to Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as one of the country’s leading tax practitioners and one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America. He serves as chairman of Skadden’s Editorial Board, overseeing all external content.

Experience

Law Clerk, Hon. Renato Beghe, U.S. Tax Court

Education