- Past chair, Limited Liability Company and Other Unincorporated Entities (LOUIE) Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, Business Law Section
- Past member, Conference Advisory Board, Philadelphia Tax Conference
- Past chair, Tax Committee, American Bar Association, Business Law Section
- Former member, Board of Directors, March of Dimes of Atlanta
- Former member, Board of Directors, Georgia Asian Pacific Bar Association
- Past Chair, Business Law Section’s Tax Committee, American Bar Association
- Former charter member, Atlanta Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)
- Former charter member, Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America (OPEN-Atlanta)
- Programming co-chair, 2010 NASABA Annual Convention, North American South Asian Bar Association
Education
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., 1997, taxation
- Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, J.D., 1993, member, Hofstra Law Review; Award for Excellence in Taxation Courses and Constitutional Law Courses
- New York University, B.S., cum laude, 1990, accounting
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
- New York
- Pennsylvania
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of Georgia
Clerkships
- Hon. John Godbold, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Languages
- Urdu (fluent)
- Punjabi (fluent)
- Podcast, “Key Advantages of Using REITs by Funds for US Individuals and GP Stakeholders,” The Tax Blueprint: Structuring Funds, Joint Ventures, and REITs, September 12, 2025.
- Co-author, “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Analysis of Key Provisions for the Real Estate Industry,” Troutman Pepper Locke, July 17, 2025.
- Co-author, “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Analysis of Key Provisions for Investment Funds and Sponsors,” Troutman Pepper Locke, July 15, 2025.
- Co-author, “The One Big Beautiful Bill: Initial Analysis of Key Provisions for the Real Estate Industry,” Troutman Pepper Locke, June 5, 2025.
- Co-author, “Tax Court Rules That Limited Partners May Be Subject to Self-Employment Tax,” Troutman Pepper, December 4, 2023.
- Co-author, “New Disclosure Requirements for Public Real Estate Investment Trusts’ Share Repurchases,” The Real Estate Finance Journal, Fall 2023.
- Co-author, “New Disclosure Requirements for Public REITs’ Share Repurchases,” Troutman Pepper, June 9, 2023.
- Co-author, “FIRPTA and Publicly Traded Corporations,” Troutman Pepper, June 8, 2023.
- Co-author, “SEC Comment Letter Update: Highlights of Trends in the 2022 SEC Comment Letters to Real Estate Investment Trusts,” Troutman Pepper, March 20, 2023.
- Author, “Structuring Sales of Investments by Funds After the Proposed Section 1061 Regulations,” Troutman Pepper, November 2, 2020.
- Co-author, “Proposed Regulations Shed Light on Three-Year Holding Period Requirement for Carried Interest,” Troutman Pepper, August 14, 2020.
- Co-author, “CARES Act and Recent IRS Guidance Provide Significant Benefit For Real Estate Businesses and Investors,” Troutman Pepper, April 15, 2020.
- Co-author, “Even More Federal and State Tax Filing and Payment Deadlines Extended in Response to COVID-19 Emergency – FAQs on Guidance,” Pepper Hamilton LLP, April 13, 2020.
- Author, “Federal Tax Reform: The Current State of Play & The Big Picture,” The National Law Review, December 5, 2017.
- Author, “Federal Tax Reform: How the Newly Passed House Bill Compares to the Senate Bill – A Side-by-Side Comparison, Plus the Big Picture,” The National Law Review, November 17, 2017.
- Author, “Federal Tax Reform: The Senate Bill – Comparison to the House Bill, and Evaluating the Bigger Picture,” The National Law Review, November 15, 2017.
- Author, “Federal Tax Reform: The House Tax Bill Summary and Where Do We Go From Here?,” The National Law Review, November 6, 2017.
- Author, “Will C Corporations Become the New Entity of Choice,” The National Law Review, October 27, 2017.
- Author, “United Framework for Tax Reform,” The National Law Review, September 29, 2017.
- Author, “An Analysis of Tax Law Proposals of the President-Elect and the House,” TaxTruths, December 2016.
- Author, “Proposed Regulations Highlight Phantom Income and Other Onerous Consequences to Holders and Issuers of Convertible Notes and Other Securities,” TaxTruths, October 2016.
- Author, “The Lessons of Up-C IPOs for Everyone,” Tax Geek Tips You Ought to Know, October 2014.
- Author, “So You Want To Issue Profits Interests,” Tax Geek Tips You Ought to Know, September 2014.
- Author, “Tax Distribution Provisions,” Tax Geek Tips You Ought to Know, August 2014.
- Co-author, “Management Fee Waivers: The Current State of Play,” Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions (V.27/N.2.), November/December 2013.
- Author, “Upcoming U.S. Tax Increases May Accelerate M&A, Property Sales and Dividends to 2012,” Financier Worldwide Global Reference Guide Corporate Tax, July 2012.
- Author, “Disclosing Confidential Matters Under Recent Tax Shelter Regulations,” 4:12 Derivatives Fin. Products Rep. 1, August 2003.
- Co-author, “Tax-Free Corporate Mergers Have Been Redefined for the LLC Era, Journal of Corporate Taxation, WG&L, Volume 30, Number 03, May/June 2003.
- Co-author, “Tax-Free Mergers for Disregarded Entities,” 2:11 Mergers and Acquisitions 3, March 2002
- Author, “States’ Net Fails to Ensnare Internet Vendors,” Taxnotes, March 31, 1997.
- Author, “Virtual Taxation: State Taxation of Internet and On-Line Sales,” 24 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 605 (1997).