Michael I. Sanders, Blank Rome, LLP

Michael I. Sanders heads the DC business tax group at Blank Rome LLP.  Mr. Sanders concentrates his practice in the area of taxation, offering particular expertise in matters affecting partnerships, limited liability companies, S-corporations, real estate and tax controversy.  He also has a large practice in the area of exempt organizations involving health care and low-income housing, associations and joint ventures between for-profits and non-profits as well as structuring new market tax credits transactions.  He regularly serves as an expert witness in complex litigation. 

Mr. Sanders has been recognized by Washingtonian magazine as “One of Washington’s Top Lawyers” for 2007, 2008 and 2009.  He is also listed as a Washington DC Super Lawyer for 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Mr. Sanders is the author of Joint Ventures Involving Tax-Exempt Organizations (3rd Ed.) published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He is also an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law Center and Georgetown University Law School teaching Income Taxation of Partnerships and Subchapter S Corporations and Tax Treatment of Charities and Other Non-Profit Organizations, Joint Ventures Involving Tax Exempt Organizations (including healthcare, universities, LIHTC, new markets, conservation organizations, respectively.

Previously, Mr. Sanders served as an Attorney-Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Tax Policy at the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel and as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice (Attorney General’s Honors Program).