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919 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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Areas of Practice
Experience
Seth Rosen is a member of the Tax Department and the Insurance Group whose practice focuses primarily on tax issues of particular importance to insurance companies and their affiliates, including insurance company mergers and acquisitions, financings and restructurings, the development of insurance, reinsurance and annuity products and overall tax planning. In addition, Mr. Rosen works with private equity groups and other investment managers who are active in the insurance sector. He also represents tax exempt clients, including public charities and private foundations. Chambers USA (2010) recommends him as a leading tax lawyer and “the first person to call when you’ve got sticky issues to deal with.” He is also recognized by The Legal 500 US (2010), where he is noted as “an excellent tax lawyer and the leading figure in structured insurance-related financing transactions.” Mr. Rosen received The Legal Aid Society’s Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service in 2003 for his work teaching young lawyers how to counsel not-for-profit entities.
Mr. Rosen writes and speaks frequently on tax topics of importance to the insurance industry. Recent lectures have included “Company Tax and Audit Update,” Life Insurance Council of New York (2009); “Corporate Restructuring,” Insurance Tax Conference (2009); “Tax Aspects of Transactions,” Life Insurance Council of New York (2008); “Mergers and Acquisitions – Selected Issues and Developments,” Insurance Tax Conference (2007); “Life Insurance Company Financings,” Life Insurance Council of New York (2006); “Life Company Update,” Life Insurance Council of New York (2005); “Deferred Compensation,” Insurance Tax Conference (2005); “Ethical Issues in Tax Practice,” Life Insurance Council of New York (2004); “Retaliatory Taxes – Selected Topics,” Insurance Tax Conference (2003); “Corporate Tax Shelters,” American Bar Association, Tax Section Mid Year Conference (2002); and “Not-for-Profit Incorporation,” The Legal Aid Society (2002-10). Mr. Rosen is co-author of “XXX Reserve Funding is Debt for Federal Tax Purposes,” Taxing Times (September 2009). Mr. Rosen has served as Chair of both the Council on Taxation and the Committee on Taxation of Corporations of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, as a Member-At-Large of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Tax Section and as a member of the Committee on Insurance Companies of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section. Mr. Rosen serves as Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in White Plains, NY and on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation and of VisionSpring.
Mr. Rosen joined Debevoise in 1981 and became a partner in 1989. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and his J.D. cum laude from New York University in 1980, where he was Executive Editor and Book Review Editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. From 1980-1981, Mr. Rosen served as Law Clerk to the Honorable William H. Timbers, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Language(s)
English
Bar Admissions
New York
Education
University of Pennsylvania,
1977,
B.A.
New York University School of Law,
1980,
J.D.
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