Robert Willens

Biography

Professor Willens was formerly tax partner-in-charge of the capital markets group at KPMG Peat Marwick, and he has participated in numerous transactions focusing on devising tax- and accounting-oriented solutions to business problems. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, where he served as chairman of the committee on revision of the corporate tax laws. Willens is the author of Taxation of Corporate Capital Transactions (John Wiley & Sons, 1984) and more than 200 articles for such publications as the Journal of Taxation, the Journal of Accountancy and the CPA Journal, and serves as a contributing editor to the Journal of Accountancy and the Journal of Taxation of Investments. Willens has been called one of the "100 Most Influential CPAs" in the United States by Accounting Today, and for several years he was named to _Institutional Investor’_s All-American Research Team.

Teaching

Investment Banking Tax Factors (MBA)

In The News

Media Mentions

• Retailers and Insurers Get Taxed More, Tech Less
• Trump Tax Plan Silent on Carried Interest, a Boon for the Very Rich The New York Times
• ''Fist Bumps'' at Hedge Funds Over Trump''s Tax Plan Reuters
• Trump’s Tax Plan Could Be Painful for New York, New Jersey, and California Bloomberg
• Ahead of Vaunted Tax Plan, It’s a Mystery Who Has Trump’s Ear on Taxes MarketWatch