Dewey & LeBoeuf

Felix B. Laughlin

Of Counsel

Felix Laughlin advises corporations and international organizations on tax matters, and handles large-case tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Federal Courts.

Mr. Laughlin has worked extensively as an advocate on behalf of the firm's corporate clients in large-case tax disputes with the IRS. He has been the lead tax controversy advisor for a number of major US corporations and has handled some of the most significant tax cases litigated in recent times. In addition, Mr. Laughlin has been retained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a consultant on international legal reform. On behalf of the IMF, he assisted the government of Indonesia in drafting new guidelines to facilitate mergers and acquisitions in that country.

Mr. Laughlin became a partner in Dewey Ballantine in 1975. In the early 1970s, he practiced in Dewey Ballantine's New York office and in 1974 he opened the firm's Washington, DC, office. From 1967 through 1971, Mr. Laughlin served in several senior positions in the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service where he had policy and technical responsibility for corporate transactions and tax accounting issues. During this period, he had responsibility for the Corporate Reorganization Branch of the Interpretive Division of the Chief Counsel's Office.

Mr. Laughlin is recognized in Best Lawyers in America 2006 as a leader in the field of Tax Law.

Bar Associations, Memberships and Activities

Federal Bar Association Tax Section, past chairman (1986-1989)
District of Columbia Bar
Tennessee Bar

Board Memberships

National Bonsai Foundation, Inc., president

Publications

Felix B. Laughlin and Kathleen C. Dale, "Accounting Methods—Which Retroactive 'Corrections' Require IRS Consent?" Tax Lawyer, Vol. 56, No. 101 (Fall 2002).
Felix B. Laughlin and Mark D. Allison, "The IRS Reorganization: Programs and Initiatives of the New Large Case Division," Administrative Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Spring 2001).