David A. Snyder
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Tax
- International Tax
- Investment Management & Transactional Tax
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Hedge Funds
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Family Office & Private Wealth
- Royalty Monetization
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Private Client & Family Office Services
- Private Capital
- Practice focuses on the tax aspects of investment management across the spectrum of alternative investment funds, including private equity funds, private credit funds, hedge funds, secondary funds, hybrid funds, evergreen funds, family offices, royalty funds, fund of funds and real estate funds.
- Advises clients on a broad range of U.S. and international tax matters, including tax considerations in fund formations and corporate transactions, with an emphasis on transactions involving investment funds across asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate and royalties.
- Provides counsel through all phases of the fund life cycle, from fund formation to investment and transaction activity to operational and succession planning.
- Counsels alternative investment fund managers on the tax aspects of “upper tier” arrangements and transactions.
David advises clients on the tax aspects of investment structures and business transactions with an emphasis on cross-border planning, domestic and international mergers & acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and partnerships.
Serving as lead tax counsel, David routinely represents large, multinational, multi-strategy alternative investment fund managers on the U.S. and international tax aspects of their investments and transactions. David represents global asset managers spanning the spectrum of funds, including private equity funds, private credit funds, hedge funds, secondary funds, hybrid funds, evergreen funds, family offices, royalty funds, fund of funds and real estate funds.
David regularly assists clients in the structuring and restructuring of domestic and international investments and negotiating corporate acquisitions in both the domestic and cross-border contexts.
Clients rely on David for bespoke tax structures tailored to his clients’ investment strategies and business objectives. In addition, David represents fund managers on upper-tier structuring and transactions. David also represents clients, including funds and fund managers, in connection with complex tax controversies and other contentious tax matters.
- Representing numerous global asset managers in serving as lead tax counsel on fund formations, investments, transactions and operations worldwide.
- Representing leading alternative investment managers in advising on planning and negotiating domestic and international business transactions, corporate and financial tax counseling.
- Represented ProKidney, a leading clinical-stage cellular therapeutics company focused on chronic kidney disease, in its $2.64 billion business combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. III.
- Represented Royalty Pharma plc on its $2.5 billion IPO and listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
- Represented TPG Angelo Gordon in the fundraising of AG Asset Based Credit Fund LP with more than $1 billion of equity commitments. The fund received significant support from existing Angelo Gordon clients, as well as new institutional investors attracted to the firm’s demonstrated ability to generate value through private credit strategies globally.
EducationLL.M., New York University School of Law, 2010
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, magna cum laude, 2009
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude, 2006
LL.M., New York University School of Law, 2010
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, magna cum laude, 2009
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude, 2006
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York