Jeffrey T. Sheffield

Sheffield, Jeffrey T.

Senior Lecturer

Phone: (312) 503-5143
E-mail: jeffrey.sheffield@law.northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Jeffrey T. Sheffield joined the Law School faculty in 2013 as a Senior Lecturer.  He has previously taught corporate tax, advanced income tax, and business planning courses at The University of Chicago and IIT-Kent College of Law.  He serves on the planning committee for, and during 2008-09 chaired, the University of Chicago Federal Income Tax Conference.  He has practiced tax law at Kirkland & Ellis LLP since 1980, where he continues as a partner.  His scholarly interests include the interplay between the form of business organization and the tax treatment of the organization’s activities.

Areas of Expertise

  • Taxation
  • Corporate Taxation
  • Business Organizations

Courses

Selected Publications

  • Corporate Transactions and the Economic Substance Doctrine in taxes – the tax magazine .
  • Reconciling Spin-Offs with General Utilities Repeal in Taxes – The Tax Magazine .
  • An Abecedarium on Alphabet Stock in taxes – the tax magazine .
  • Organizing the Corporate Venture (Little Brown & Co.) (with Christian Kimball).
  • Federal Income Tax Considerations Affecting Start-Up Businesses in Start-Up & Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business. (with Jack S. Levin)

Education

  • JD, Harvard Law School
  • BA, University of Chicago

Prior Appointments

  • Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
  • Lecturer, Chicago-Kent College of Law