Lee S. Meyercord

Lee Meyercord is a Dallas tax attorney who represents taxpayers in all stages of a federal tax dispute, including audits, administrative appeals and federal income tax litigation. She has represented a broad range of clients, including Fortune 100 companies, large partnerships, closely held businesses, exempt organizations and high-net-worth individuals. She has significant experience in partnership tax issues relating to energy, real estate and private equity. She also represents taxpayers in Texas property tax disputes.

Ms. Meyercord is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Representative Experience

• Represents high-net-worth individuals in audits involving aircrafts and sports industry losses
• Represents large business taxpayers in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits and appeals involving oil and gas, energy and partnership tax issues, as well as tax litigation and procedural issues, including penalties
• Represents tax matters partner in an IRS audit and litigation involving a novel self-employment tax issue
• Advises partnerships on a wide range of issues, including refinancing, management fees, carried interests and disguised sale issues
• Represents families in IRS appeals and litigation in estate and gift tax valuation cases
• Represented multiple tax-exempt organizations in IRS audits that resolved with no changes or minor agreed adjustments
• Served as special tax counsel in connection with the largest nonfinancial bankruptcy in U.S. history, with multibillion-dollar tax issues relating to the bankruptcy restructuring and IRS proposed tax adjustments
• Prevailed in the U.S. Tax Court on a multimillion-dollar administrative adjustment request for a partnership refund, which involved complex partnership litigation procedural issues
• Represented taxpayers in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, appeals, mediation and lawsuits