Gregg Polsky And Patrice Wylly Join NYU As Professors Of Tax Practice

NYU Law News, Gregg Polsky and Patrice Wylly ’15, LLM ’18 to Join NYU Law’s Tax Faculty:

Gregg Polsky, the Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, and Patrice Wylly ’15, LLM ’18, a tax specialist at the trading firm Jane Street Group, will both join the NYU Law faculty as professors of practice in the Graduate Tax Program.

Polsky, a faculty member at the University of Georgia School of Law since 2016, focuses in his teaching and writing on federal income tax and business law. He has taught basic tax, corporate tax, partnership tax, business basics for lawyers, and a tax policy seminar. Polsky co-authored the casebook Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials and has published articles on private equity and venture capital tax strategies, corporate transactions, and executive compensation. ...

Wylly graduated from NYU Law magna cum laude with a JD degree and subsequently earned an LLM in Taxation at the Law School. At Jane Street Group, she has managed special tax structuring projects and advised on tax law matters, including new tax legislation and tax planning opportunities. Previously, as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Wylly focused particularly on the tax consequences of taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and hedge fund formation, and capital markets transactions. She has published tax scholarship in the Virginia Tax Review.