John Schmehl

John W. Schmehl, a Dilworth Paxson LLP partner, advises clients on tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions; spin-off, split-off, and split-up transactions involving the tax-free division of assets; structuring executive compensation plans, including advice on golden parachutes and §409A deferred compensation issues; preservation of net operating losses and §382 studies; insolvency and bankruptcy planning, including forgiveness of debt issues; §1031 like-kind exchanges; S corporations; formation of limited partnership and limited liability companies; and state and local tax issues. With four years’ experience as an IRS trial attorney, Mr. Schmehl continues to advise clients in tax controversies from audit to appeal to litigation, both in the United States Tax Court and in tax refund litigation in District Court or the Court of Federal Claims. He also advises on private letter rulings and technical advice, and on IRS collection matters, and he works with the firm’s Corporate Investigations/White Collar Group to defend fraud and criminal tax investigations. As an IRS District Counsel attorney, Mr. Schmehl advised revenue agents, revenue officers and special agents in civil, collection and criminal tax matters. He graduated cum laude with a B.A. degree in Psychology from Muhlenberg College in 1975. Mr. Schmehl earned his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, where he was the editor of the Dickinson Law Review and a recipient of the Edwin Polisher and Prentice-Hall Awards in Taxation in 1978. Mr. Schmehl received his LL.M. degree in Taxation from Temple University School of Law in 1982. He was recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for 2004-2017.