Overview
Experience
News
Education and Credentials
Recognition and Community
Overview
Amy Drais advises business clients, individuals and families, as well as tax-exempt clients on a wide range of domestic and cross-border tax matters. She has extensive experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, business formations, investment fund activity, capital markets transactions, joint ventures and general securities matters. Amy also advises fund managers, private funds and fund investors on Subchapter K (partnership) tax matters in connection with, among other things, fund formation, structuring, investments including REITs and management structures. She is committed to offering innovative and comprehensive tax solutions to complex challenges.
Prior to joining Day Pitney, Amy worked at large international law firms and she also spent time as in-house tax counsel at a large multinational corporation.
Experience
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Advised multinational corporation on optimal tax structure for acquisitions and carve-out transactions
Advised Connecticut-based small business on partnership restructuring
Advised startup technology company on tax aspects of Series B fundraising
Advised European company on PFIC (passive foreign investment company) matters
Represented US and non-US based fund managers on tax aspects of fund formation and investments
Represented non-US and tax-exempt institutional investors, including pension funds and universities, investing in private equity funds
Represented real estate funds on tax aspects of fund matters, including investments in REITs
News
Featured, August 30, 2024, Hartford Business Journal
Featured, August 29, 2024 , Law360 Pulse
Featured, August 28, 2024, Connecticut Law Tribune
Featured, August 26, 2024, Bloomberg Law's Daily Tax Report
Featured, August 26, 2024 , Day Pitney Press Release
Education and Credentials
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2007
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Master of Science in Foreign Service, Foreign Service – International Development, 2004
Wellesley College, B.A., 2000
Admissions
State of Connecticut
State of New York
Affiliations
New York State Bar Association, Tax Section, 2007-2012
Languages
French
Recognition and Community
Community
Community Weston Field Club, President, 2021-present