Baker & McKenzie has hired two new tax partners. In Chicago, PATRICIA REXFORD brings her tax controversy practice to the firm from Mayer Brown. Rexford represents clients on audits, IRS administrative appeals, and court matters at the trial and appellate level, including the U.S. Supreme Court. JOSHUA ODINTZ, meanwhile, joins the firm’s Washington, D.C., office from the Treasury Department, where he served as senior advisor for tax reform to the department’s assistant secretary. Odintz also served in a variety of other roles, including a stint as chief tax counsel to the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. At Baker & McKenzie, his practice will focus on tax controversy and tax policy matters.
Blank Rome’s newest partner is PAUL SHUR, a financial services attorney who works in New York and Princeton. Shur was last at Sills Cummis & Gross, where he chaired that firm’s banking and finance practice. He concentrates on commercial and financial transactions, loan workout restructurings, and creditors’ rights litigation.
