Elisa M. Walker practices in the area of corporate law with a focus on taxation, designing tax-efficient legal structures and representing clients in transactional tax matters. Her practice encompasses all aspects of corporate taxation, including planning for complex international corporate structures, navigating cross-border transactions and advising on a range of corporate and partnership taxation issues. Her experience includes assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions of subchapter C corporations, taxable stock sales, formation and negotiation of sophisticated and complex joint ventures, preparation of partnership and limited liability company agreements, and purchase and sale of partnership and limited liability company interests.
Ms. Walker started her career in the international transaction taxation practice of a big four accounting firm. She went on to serve as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Judge Ronald Buch of the United States Tax Court.
Ms. Walker is a 2017 cum laude graduate of the Florida State University College of Law, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Florida State University Law Review. In 2020, she received an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was a graduate student editor for the Florida Tax Review.
Admissions
- New Jersey
- Florida
- U.S. Tax Court
Education
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, LL.M., Taxation, 2020
- Graduate Student Editor, Florida Tax Review - Florida State University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2017
- Editor-in-Chief, Florida State University Law Review
Experience
- Duane Morris LLP
- Associate, 2023-present - Greenberg Traurig PA
- Associate, 2022-2023 - U.S. Tax Court
- Judicial Clerk to the Hon. Ronald Buch, 2020-2021
Professional Activities
- Florida Bar, Tax Section- Committee Director, 2022-2024
Civic and Charitable Activities
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
- IRS Certified Tax Preparation Assistant
Selected Publications
- Co-author, "Treasury Department Releases Proposed Guidance on New Clean Vehicle Tax Credit Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act," Duane Morris Alert, April 18, 2023
Author, “Altera v. Commissioner: Tax Exceptionalism Revisited,” Fla. B. Tax Sec. Bull. Fall 2019, at 11.