Sarah Brodie concentrates her practice on tax planning, with a particular focus on complex partnership tax issues. She advises financial institutions, private equity funds, utilities, energy companies, and other US and multinational businesses on domestic and international transactions. Sarah also advises on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, internal restructurings, fund formations, and divestitures and represents clients in proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service. She drafts partnership agreements for complex business arrangements and is a co-author of Structuring and Drafting Partnership and LLC Agreements (Thomson Reuters/WG&L, 4th ed. 2021).
Sarah also has an extensive background with technical partnership tax issues and is a co-author of McKee, Nelson & Whitmire: Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners (Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting, 5th ed. 2024).
Sarah is a frequent speaker at tax conferences, including for the Practicing Law Institute, TEI, American Bar Association, and the DC Bar. Sarah previously interned for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, Large and Mid-Sized Business division, where she assisted with tax shelter litigation and settlement negotiations with corporate taxpayers.
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Tax Law, Washington, DC (2024, 2025)
Rising Star, Tax, Law360 (2021)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Tax, Law360 (2017)