Real Estate Life Insurance
Resume:
Zhanna Kushkhova, Esq.
New York, NY 10021
*********@*******.***
WORK EXPERIENCE
KPMG LLP, New York, NY
Senior Tax Associate, Real Estate Group, Financial Services - June 2010 -
Present
Tax Associate, Real Estate Group, Financial Services - December 2007 - June
2010
. Research and draft opinions with respect to Effectively Connected and
Fixed, Determinable, Annual or
Periodical income, Subpart F income, and 892 issues for large corporate
clients and foreign
government pension funds with worldwide investments;
. Advise large corporations and partnerships of tax consequences to
their individual, corporate, partnership,
and tax exempt investors, and draft structuring memos on minimization of
tax leakage;
. Review Passive Foreign Investment Company testing and Earnings and
Profits Studies, Real Estate Investment Trust testing, 743(b) step-up,
163(j) limitation, excessive production expenditure, percentage of
completion, minimum gain, and state apportionment and allocation
calculations for large corporations and partnerships;
. Review partnership and corporate income and informational tax returns,
Schedules K-1, and supporting
documentation and workpapers, including Forms 1065, 1120, 1120-F, 8865,
5471, 8805, 8804, 1042, as well
as corporate and partnership state tax returns;
. Supervise, develop, and train associates.
Securities Arbitration Clinic, St. John's School of Law, David Fuster &
Associates, PC, and Law Offices of Alla Morginshteren Queens and Brooklyn,
NY
Tax, Trusts and Estates, Real Estate, Securities, and Bankruptcy Law Intern
- June 2006 - December 2006, May 2005 - August 2005
. Assisted in drafting wills and setting up trusts;
. Researched and drafted memos on gift, estate, and transfer tax
questions including probate and
estate valuation issues, life insurance and Qualified Terminable
Interest Property Trusts, generation
skipping taxes, and FIRPTA applicability to real property and
partnership interest transfers;
. Prepared pleadings and performed due diligence searches for closings;
. Represented investors in disputes against broker-dealers in New York;
. Analyzed claims for fraudulent inducement, unsuitability and churning;
. Interviewed clients and conducted discovery;
. Prepared bankruptcy petitions.
EDUCATION
St. John's University School of Law, Queens, NY
New York Bar Admission (2008); J.D. (June 2007); GPA: 3.27; Top 34th
Percentile
Honors: Dean's Honor Roll (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
Concentration: Taxation, Trusts and Estates
Activities: President of Federalist Society
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
B.A., Political Science and English (2002); GPA: 3.95
Honors: Chancellor's Honor Roll, Academic Excellence Scholarship
Activities: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
University of Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik, Russia
B.A., Romano-Germanic Philology (2000); GPA: 4.00
SKILLS: Lexis, Westlaw, Thompson Reuters RIA, CCH;
Microsoft Office
including strong Excel skills.
LANGUAGES: English, Russian, Circassian
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