Robert Rizzi

Partner

Robert Rizzi is a partner in O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Washington office, and is currently the Chair of the firm’s tax practice group.  He was one of the founding partners of the firm’s Silicon Valley office in 2001.   

 

His practice covers federal and state income tax aspects of corporate and partnership business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures, and workouts, as well as tax advice on executive compensation plans and equity participation arrangements. 

 

For the past 10 years, his practice has included advising senior executive branch appointees on ethics and related matters.  His clients have included a number of cabinet and subcabinet members, administrators and commissioners of various agencies, and a numerous ambassadorial appointees in Democratic and Republican administrations.  He was a member of a vetting team for a vice presidential review committee.

Bob has taught corporate taxation at Catholic University Law School and government ethics at Georgetown University Law Center, and has also taught graduate tax courses in real estate taxation and in bankruptcy taxation.  He has written and spoken on a range of tax-related topics. He writes a bi-monthly column, “Corporate Organizations and Reorganizations,” for the Journal of Corporate Taxation and is a founding editor of Mergers and Acquisitions, The Monthly Tax Journal. 

Bob has served on the Board of Trustees of American Friends for New College (Oxford).  He served as an assistant general counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1981-1982.

Professional Activities

Member, Office of General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency, 1981-1982; American Bar Association Tax Section
Contributing Editor, Journal of Corporate Taxation; Mergers and Acquisitions, The Monthly Tax Journal
Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center (2004-Present); Columbus Law School, Catholic University of America, 1997-1999; Masters in Taxation Program, Golden Gate University, 1992-1994