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    Isaac J. Wheeler

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    Isaac Wheeler is the co-head of the Firm's Tax Group. He represents a wide range of clients, including financial institutions and other multinational corporations, asset managers, real estate developers, and private individuals. Mr. Wheeler works on M&A, real estate, joint venture, hedge fund, private equity, and partnership transactions. He also regularly works with S&C’s Estates and Personal Group in advising families and individuals in connection with their estate planning transactions and their worldwide investments.

    Spotlight

    The National Law Journal Names Matt Hurd, Nader Mousavi and Isaac Wheeler “Trailblazers” in Emerging Therapies & Life Sciences, Intellectual Property and Tax

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    S&C Critical Insights – A Discussion of Recent Internal Revenue Service Guidance

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    S&C Critical Insights – Three Corporate Tax Changes Under the Inflation Reduction Act

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    Eric Krautheimer, Melissa Sawyer and Isaac Wheeler Named Top Dealmakers by The American Lawyer

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    Experience

    • AT&T in its:
      • joint venture with TPG Capital establishing DirecTV
      • pending sale of its business unit Vrio to Grupo Werthein
      • spin-off of WarnerMedia into Discovery
      • $1.43 billion sale of its minority stake in Hulu back to the streaming video joint venture
      • $108.7 billion acquisition of Time Warner
    • Bellco Capital in its formation of Breakthrough Properties, a joint venture with Tishman Speyer, to acquire, develop and operate life science properties in leading technology centers, and Breakthrough in its acquisition of a property located in Boston’s Seaport District, with 250,000 square feet of development rights

    • Blackstone in connection with Precision Medicine Group’s major investment and recapitalization, led by funds managed by Blackstone
    • Blue Pool Capital, as a significant equity holder in Owl Rock Capital Group, in connection with Owl Rock Capital and Dyal Capital Partners’ formation of Blue Owl Capital
    • Broad Street Principal Investments, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs, in its $710 million acquisition of a 27-building portfolio of repositioned historic and newly constructed office assets located in Seattle and Denver totaling 1.8 million square feet from Unico Investment Group
    • C&S Wholesale Grocers in its $1.9 billion pending acquisition of 413 stores, eight distribution centers and two offices that Kroger is proposing to divest in connection with Kroger and Albertsons Companies’ merger and acquisition of the wholesale distribution and supply business of Grocers Supply Company
    • c0ntact gaming in its acquisition of the Paris franchise of the newly created Call of Duty League
    • Cedar Capital Partners, as a member of a joint venture with King Street Real Estate and Westdale Properties, in the $120 million acquisition of the Shelborne South Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida
    • CIT Group in its pending merger with First Citizens
    • Colson Associates in the sale of its majority interest in the Colson Medical Companies to Marmon Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway company
    • Credit Suisse in:
      • its $3.3 billion merger with UBS
      • the sale of its Securitized Products Group and other related financing businesses to Apollo
    • Crescent Capital in the $338 million sale of a 51% stake in Crescent to Sun Life Financial
    • DM Esports in its agreement to join The Overwatch League as the owner of an expansion franchise in Paris, France
    • First Bancorp of Durango in its acquisition by Triumph Bancorp
    • G-I Energy Investments LLC in connection with multiple investments in renewables projects
    • GAF in its €1 billion acquisition of Icopal
    • Giants Development Services, an affiliate of The San Francisco Giants, in its joint venture with Tishman Speyer to develop the waterfront Mission Rock mixed-use neighborhood near Oracle Park
    • Goldman Sachs in its:
      • €1.7 billion acquisition of NN Investment Partners
      • $2 billion acquisition of GreenSky
      • acquisition of Folio Financial
    • Intel Corporation in connection with Micron Technology’s acquisition of Intel’s interest in the parties’ joint venture, IM Flash Technologies
    • Joe Tsai in his acquisition of the:
      • Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets
      • WNBA team known as the New York Liberty
    • JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of Aumni
    • KKR & Co. in its acquisition of two commercial office condominium units comprising the top 10 office floors, approximately 343,000 square feet, at 30 Hudson Yards
    • New York Community Bancorp in its $2.6 billion acquisition of Flagstar
    • Piper Jaffray in its $485 million acquisition of Sandler O’Neill
    • Piper Sandler in its acquisition of The Valence Group
    • Sempra Infrastructure Partners in the $6.8 billion project financing of the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 Project in Jefferson County, Texas
    • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CIM Real Estate Finance Trust in its acquisitions of Cole Office & Industrial REIT and Cole Credit Property Trust V and proposed acquisition of Cole Office & Industrial REIT
    • Standard Industries in its:
      • $7 billion acquisition of W. R. Grace
      • $2.1 billion acquisition of Braas Monier Building Group
    • SVB Financial Group (in bankruptcy) in respect of its tax equity investments
    • Symbotic in its and SoftBank’s establishment of GreenBox Systems and its approximately $7.5 billion new customer contract with GreenBox
    • TS Innovations Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its $1.56 billion merger with Latch
    • Verily, an Alphabet company, in its joint venture with Santen Pharmaceutical

    Rankings and Recognitions

    • Law360, 2022 MVP in Tax
    • The American Lawyer, “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2022
    • Chambers USA, recognized for Tax – New York (Band 5)

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    Credentials

    Education

    • New York University School of Law, J.D., 2009
    • University of Michigan, B.A., 2003

    Bar Admissions

    • New York

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