Profiles of Lexis Practice Advisor Journal™ Advisory Board Members Joseph Marger & Leah Robinson

Joseph Marger Partner: Reed Smith

JOSEPH MARGER IS A PARTNER IN Reed Smith’s Real Estate group. He has substantial experience in all aspects of the sale and acquisition of real estate, both single-asset and portfolio transactions, including industrial and commercial single-user facilities, shopping centers, hotels, office buildings, and multi-family residential properties. He is equally experienced in real estate finance, including sale-leaseback and build-tosuit financing transactions, traditional loan documentation for borrowers and institutional lenders for construction and development, and stabilized assets, including securitized transactions. In addition, Joseph has extensive experience in the representation of landlords and tenants in negotiating and drafting significant commercial office leases, bank branch leases, and retail and restaurant leases in New York City and across the country and in structuring transactions and drafting partnership and limited liability company agreements involving pension funds, developers, investment banks, private equity funds, and individual investors.

Leah Robinson Mayer Brown LLP

LEAH SAMIT ROBINSON RECENTLY joined Mayer Brown LLP to build and lead its State and Local Tax Group. She advises public and private business entities on state and local tax planning, controversy, and litigation. Leah provides national and state tax strategy and audit assistance for clients on a full range of tax matters, including nexus, combination and apportionment, and net operating loss issues. She is particularly well known for her advocacy in New York City and New York State, as well as for advising on the impact of the massive New York tax reform undertaken in 2014 and 2015. She has been appointed to the New York City Department of Finance Commissioner’s Advisory Board each year since 2014, as well as to the city’s Pass-Through Taxation Working Group (also since 2014), a think tank formed by the Department of Finance to assist with bringing reform to the city’s Unincorporated Business Tax. Leah is highly respected in the industry and a frequent speaker and author on state and local tax related topics. Leah has been a principal drafter of several reports issued by the New York State Bar Association Tax Section commenting on tax reform legislation and proposed draft regulations and one report issued by the New York City Bar Tax Section. In 2008, she formed a networking group for women in state tax, which has gained a loyal following and continues to meet on a monthly basis.