Kimberly S. Blanchard

Kimberly Blanchard is a Tax partner in Weil’s Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits Department and is based in New York. Ms. Blanchard’s practice encompasses a variety of largely international transactions involving corporate acquisitions and mergers, internal restructurings, business formations and joint ventures.

Ms. Blanchard also advises domestic, foreign and multinational clients in connection with venture capital investment and fund formation, partnerships, real estate, executive compensation and exempt organization issues.

Ms. Blanchard has lectured and published extensively on topics ranging from international tax planning for U.S. businesses to the special tax issues facing foreign persons, pension plans and other exempt investors who invest in U.S. private equity partnerships and in U.S. real estate.

Ms. Blanchard is a former Chair of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section. She is active with the American Bar Association’s international tax committees and is a member of both the Tax Forum and the Tax Review paper and discussion groups. Ms. Blanchard is the immediate past President of the International Tax Institute.

She is a member of the Bloomberg BNA Tax Management International Tax Advisory Board and the author of the Tax Management Portfolio on PFICs, a “Leading Practitioner Contributor” to the Tax Management International Journal and a member of Practical Law Company’s U.S. advisory board.

In addition, Ms. Blanchard is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Indian College Fund and of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York.

Education:

• Dartmouth College (B.A., 1976)
• University of Wisconsin (M.S., 1978)
• New York University School of Law (J.D., 1981)

Admissions:

• New York State
• US Tax Court