Rick Gove

Executive summary

Rick is a principal in our M&A Tax Services practice in Dallas and serves clients nationally on transaction related tax matters.

Rick assists clients primarily with tax consulting in the area of mergers and acquisitions and post-transaction tax matters. Rick’s areas of focus include buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence, tax structure consulting, and tax modeling for clients that are contemplating potential sales or purchases, cross-border transaction matters, capital restructuring, and IRC Section 382 considerations.

In addition to live transaction matters, Rick assists clients with legal entity planning and rationalization and documentation of technical matters. Rick has experience with complex tax compliance matters for consolidated corporate groups, including documenting technical acquisition matters and consolidated tax attribute reporting.

Rick has served a variety of industries and clients, including those in the private equity, healthcare, professional services, financial services, retail, transportation, logistics, manufacturing, real estate, technology, and energy industries.

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Rick is admitted to practice law in New York and Texas.
• New York State Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas

Community involvement

• Member of Big Leaders Board, Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star

Education

• Rick received his Bachelor of Business Administration with honors from the University of Texas at Austin and his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.