Collier on Bankruptcy Taxation

MYRON M. SHEINFELD, is senior counsel at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, Feld LLP in Houston, Texas, and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School from 1974-1991.

He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and the United States District Court, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas. Mr. Sheinfeld received his B.A. from Tulane University in 1951, Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1954. Mr. Sheinfeld has authored the following: Tax Problems of Business in Reorganization and Arrangement, 13 Houston Law Review (March 1976); Business Reorganization Under the Bankruptcy Code (West 1980); Analysis of the Tax Provisions of Bankruptcy Code and the Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980, 55 Am Bky. Law Journal (Spring 1981); Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980 and Its Effect on Real Estate, 9 Journal of Real Estate Taxation (Fall 1981). He is a Board Member for Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition Revised and Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide.

Mr. Sheinfeld is a member of the following: National Bankruptcy Conference; American College of Bankruptcy, (former Vice President and Director), Houston (Chairman, Creditors' Rights Committee, 1969) and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas (Director, 1969-72; Secretary, Tax Section 1971; Chairman, Corporation, Business and Banking Law Section, 1980-81); Member, American Bar Foundation, Texas Bar Foundation; Chairman, Bankruptcy Advisory Commission, Texas (1974-1999): Member, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; and Member, ABA Committee on Specialization.

Mr. Sheinfeld has also lectured variously for the University of Texas Annual Bankruptcy Institute, SMU Annual Bankruptcy Conference and numerous bankruptcy programs, seminars and conferences for judges and practitioners throughout the United States. He is a Member, Board of Editors, The Practical Lawyer ALI-ABA and a Trustee of the Third Avenue Trust and a Director of NABORS Industries, Inc.

Henry J. Sommer is a leading authority on consumer bankruptcy law and has litigated many major cases involving bankruptcy, consumer law, civil rights and other issues. He is the Supervising Attorney at the pro bono Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project in Philadelphia and formerly served as the head of the Consumer Law Project at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. Mr. Sommer has served as a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law. Mr. Sommer is the author of Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guide (Matthew Bender), Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice (Nat'l Consumer Law Center), and numerous articles on bankruptcy law. He is co-author of Collier Family Law and the Bankruptcy Code (Matthew Bender). Mr. Sommer is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the National Bankruptcy Conference. In addition, he is an elected Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is a former president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, former Chair of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board Consumer Advisory Council. Mr. Sommer was the first recipient of the National Consumer Law Center's Vern Countryman Consumer Law Award. He received his legal education from Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude).

MILTON B. HYMAN is a partner with Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California and was admitted to the California bar in 1967. Mr. Hyman received his B.A. in Economics with Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1963, and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1966. At Harvard, Mr. Hyman was a member of the Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review and received the Harvard University Sheldon Traveling Fellowship.

Mr. Hyman has acted as special tax counsel to debtors in possession and creditors' committees in major corporate reorganizations under the Bankruptcy Act and the Bankruptcy Code. As tax counsel he has been responsible for bankruptcy tax planning, as well as the resolution in a bankruptcy reorganization context of significant tax matters with the IRS and other taxing authorities. He is a contributor to and co-author of many tax publications, and is a frequent lecturer and panelist on issues of corporate and partnership taxation, including preservation and use of net operating losses, consolidated returns and other tax attributes.

Mr. Hyman is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute, Tax Advisory Group, Federal Income Project. He is a past chairman of the Committee on Affiliated and Related Corporations of the Corporate Tax Committee of the ABA Tax Section.

FRED T. WITT, JR. is the National Director, Real Estate Tax Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Phoenix, Arizona. He is a member of the Arizona bar. Mr. Witt received a B.S. from Nebraska Wesleyan University, a J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law and an LL.M. (in taxation) from New York University. He is a frequent author and speaker on federal tax matters, particularly relating to bankruptcy tax matters. He has written articles appearing in such publications as The Journal of Taxation, The Tax Lawyer and Virginia Tax Review. Mr. Witt is chair of the Section 108 Real Estate and Partnership Task Force formed by the Real Estate, Individual Investment and Partnership Committees and is a past chair of the Real Estate Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation.