Kevin M. Jacobs is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Washington D.C. and the National Tax Office Practice Leader. Kevin also co-leads the firm’s Restructuring Tax Service (RTS) initiative, which aligns with A&M’s core restructuring business assisting distressed companies with complex tax matters.

Prior to joining A&M, Kevin was a Senior Technician Reviewer with the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate), where he advised on tax issues such as tax attributes (earning and profits, recovery and allocation of stock basis, and Section 108(b) attribute reduction), bankruptcies, corporate re-organizations and corporation-shareholder issues, liquidations, redemptions, spin-offs and consolidated returns. He 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, and debt-equity regulations and provided substantial contributions to numerous other guidance projects, such as the limitation on interest deductions regulations. Kevin 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.

Kevin earned a bachelor's degree in accounting, a master’s degree in accounting (with a concentration in taxation), a J.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Florida and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University.