Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Jacobs was a Senior Technician Reviewer (TCJA) with the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) for more than six years, where he advised on tax issues such as corporate re-organizations and corporation-shareholder issues, earning and profits, recovery and allocation of stock basis, liquidations, redemptions, bankruptcies, spin-offs and consolidated returns.

While with the IRS, Mr. Jacobs was the principal Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) attorney on several regulatory projects including the proposed section 382(h) regulations on built-in gains and losses, the global intangible low-taxed income regulations, and debt-equity regulations. He provided substantial contributions to other guidance projects such as the limitation on interest deductions regulations, and assisted in overseeing the Corporate Division’s response to TCJA, including the coordination with Treasury’s Offices of Tax Legislative Counsel and International Tax Counsel. Previously, Mr. Jacobs spent more than nine years at law and certified public accounting firms (Ropes & Gray LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP, Dewey Ballantine LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP).

Mr. Jacobs earned a bachelor's degree in accounting, a master’s degree in accounting (taxation concentration), a JD (magna cum laude) from the University of Florida and an LLM in taxation from New York University. He is admitted to the District of Columbia and Florida Bars and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Florida and Colorado. Mr. Jacobs is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker on numerous corporate transaction tax matters.