Robert G. Nassau
Areas Of Practice
Taxation
Trusts & Estates
Business & Corporate
Employee Benefits
Mr. Nassau is experienced in general corporate, partnership, international, and individual taxation, as well as estate planning and executive compensation.
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School
B.A., Yale University
Professional Experience
After his admission to the New York State bar in 1986, Mr. Nassau joined the Tax Department of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City, where he practiced Federal and State tax law until 1991. He was Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School in 1991, 1994, 1996, and 1998, where he taught Taxation of Financial Instruments. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Syracuse University College of Law since 1994. At the College of Law, he teaches Basic Federal Income Taxation, Taxation of Corporate Transactions, International Taxation, and Estate and Gift Taxation. He is also the Director of the Syracuse Law School Low Income Taxpayer Clinic.
Professional Honors and Achievements
Mr. Nassau is the author of “DaVinci and the Code” (2006), “Green Eggs and Sham” (1996), "Cancellation of Gambling Debts and Not-So-Phantom Income" (1991), and co-author of “NYSBA Report on Recent Developments Regarding Worker Classification with Revised Proposals for Reform” (1998), “NYSBA Report on Revisions to Nonresident Audit Guidelines” (1997), “NYSBA Report on Nexus Standards for Out-of-State Vendors” (1996), “NYSBA Report on Proposed Reforms to Administration and Enforcement of Employment Tax and Income Tax on Individual Workers” (1995), "New Foreign Currency Regulations Provide Guidance Under Section 988" (1990), and "Report on Regulations Relating to the Definition of a Controlled Foreign Corporation, Foreign Base Company Income, and Foreign Personal Holding Company Income" (1989); and he assisted in writing "Frequent Flyer Bonuses: A Tax Compliance Dilemma" (1986).