Islame Hosny

He advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors, investment funds, and real estate clients on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing arrangements, and fund structuring and formation.

Islame advises clients and deal teams throughout the deal lifecycle, from initial structuring through closing, including designing tax-efficient transaction structures and drafting and negotiating tax provisions in transaction documents. He has extensive experience across a wide range of matters, including stock and asset acquisitions, taxable and tax-free mergers, recapitalizations, credit facilities and other financings, debt workouts, and equity rollovers.

Islame earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law and was a Mary Daly Scholar. He also received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. He writes regularly on taxation, and his work has been published in academic and professional journals including the Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment, Rutgers University Law Review, Rutgers Business Law Review, Journal of Taxation, Tax Notes Federal, and Bloomberg Tax.