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David J. Fischer is a partner in the Tax practice group and a member of Cooley Godward Kronish's Business department. He joined the firm in 2008 and is resident in the Washington, DC office.
Mr. Fischer has provided federal tax advice and representation with particular emphasis on tax litigation and controversy for more than 25 years. Mr. Fischer has handled tax cases in the Tax Court, Court of Federal Claims, and District Courts; before the IRS Appeals office, including accelerated appeals and mediation; and on IRS examination, including coordinated examination audits and fast track. Mr. Fischer has supervised the litigation of coordinated industry issues, partnership-level and litigation project tax shelters, and test cases. He has defended summonses and requests for foreign documentation and obtained protective orders against discovery.
Mr. Fischer currently focuses on IRS Tier I litigation issues, particularly buy-in royalty payments in connection with cost sharing arrangements and related transfer pricing issues. Mr. Fischer has extensive transfer pricing experience, with respect to both documentation and litigation, and was co-author of the Examination and Appeals Chapter of A Practical Guide to U.S. Transfer Pricing, Aspen Publishers, Inc. (1999).
Mr. Fischer has handled numerous "listed transactions" and promoter issues, representing large corporate clients or high wealth individuals. His cases include Son of Boss, various basis-shifting tax shelters, charitable remainder trust arrangements, tax-sensitive leasing, foreign currency, commodity, option and stock trading issues, and amortization of sports player contracts and other intangibles.
Before joining Cooley Godward Kronish, Mr. Fischer was head of the Tax Controversy Team at Baker Hostetler and coordinator of the Tax Group in their Washington, D.C. office and was a partner at Zapruder & Odell, a D.C. tax boutique.
Mr. Fischer earned his Juris Doctor, with honors, from The George Washington University Law School in 1983. He received his B.A. in economics, with high honors, in 1980 from Michigan State University.
Mr. Fischer is an active member of the Court Practice and Procedure Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, and a regular speaker before the ABA and other professional organizations. He has been editorial advisor to The Tax Advisor, the monthly periodical of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a trustee of the American Resort Development Association. Mr. Fischer is a director of the Anglo-American Charitable Foundation, Ltd.
Mr. Fischer is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and is a member of the American Bar Association.
Education- George Washington University Law School
JD, 1983, With honors - Michigan State University
BA, 1980, With high honors
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