With more than 14 years of experience, Ms. Hicks provides clients with a full range of tax services, including initial planning, implementation and preparing federal and state tax returns. She focuses on federal tax compliance matters for private equity and closely held businesses and high-net worth individuals in the real estate and professional services industries.

At A&M, Ms. Hicks’ notable engagements include assisting clients with planning for and implementing complex transactions, frequently teaming with the Global Transaction Tax group, including condemnations, asset capitalization and complex tiered partnership structures. Her real estate experience includes residential real estate, commercial office buildings, shopping centers and hotels.

Additionally, Ms. Hicks brings experience with domestic and multinational corporate consolidated reporting matters and accounting for income taxes. She has assisted clients with reporting of stock and asset acquisitions, purchase price accounting and planning for liquidation and stock basis studies.

Ms. Hicks earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a master's degree in taxation from the Kogod School of Business at American University. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Maryland.