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AndyOppenheimer

Partner

Overview

Biography

Andy is a seasoned tax and transactional lawyer who focuses his practice on cross-border and domestic tax and corporate matters involving partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. He advises business clients in a wide range of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, domestic and cross-border financings, restructurings, reorganizations, and spinoffs. He also represents clients in tax controversy disputes with the Internal Revenue Service. Andy serves as co-leader of Barclay Damon's Business Services Practice Group and is co-chair of the Tax Practice Area.

In addition to his practice, Andy is an adjunct professor at the University of Albany, where he teaches international tax in the school's master's degree program in taxation. He also co-taught a cross-border capstone course at the University at Buffalo School of Law.

Andy often speaks and writes on various federal and international tax matters.

Bar Associations

  • New York State Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association
Experience

Representative Experience

  • Represented a long-standing Orchard Park specialty technical manufacturer in the successful sale of its equity and real property to a private equity platform.

Prior Experience

  • Hodgson Russ LLP, Partner
  • Hodgson Russ LLP, Senior Associate
  • Hodgson Russ LLP, Associate
  • Ernst & Young, Manager
  • Ernst & Young, Senior
  • Erie County, Assistant District Attorney

Selected Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America®: Corporate Law, 2024–2025; Litigation and Controversy – Tax, 2024–2025; Tax Law, 2024–2025
  • Selected to Super Lawyers Upstate New York Rising Stars: Tax, 2020
Knowledge

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Bar Association of Erie County 66th Tax Institute, “The ABCs of the Business-Related International Tax Provisions Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”
  • National TD Wealth Advisory Services Conference 2018
  • CleantechIQ Webinar, “Implications of New US Tax Law in Cross-Border Transactions”
  • New York State Bar Association, “LLCs and Corporations: Tax Legal Planning Considerations”
  • New York State Bar Association, “The Non-Tax Lawyer’s Guide to Tax Law”

Selected Media

Selected Alerts & Blog Posts

Featured Media

Alerts

The Reach and Apply Injunction: Massachusetts's Secret Sauce

Alerts

Latest Update to the Corporate Transparency Act – What You Need to Know

Alerts

OCR Begins Investigating Higher Education Institutions Following Dear Colleague Letter

Alerts

Streamlining Business Bankruptcy: Subchapter V Compared to Chapter 11

Alerts

NYS Court of Appeals "Rashly Enact[s] a Staggering Expansion of Municipal Liability"

Alerts

OCR Issues FAQs Regarding Dear Colleague Letter Addressing Race Discrimination

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