Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Victor Fleischer
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Tax, Deals, Venture Capital and Private Equity
University of Colorado Law School
408 Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Phone: (303) 834-7566
E-mail: victor.fleischer@gmail.com
Personal Link: http://www.victorfleischer.com
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Bio:
Professor Fleischer joined the Colorado law faculty in 2006. He specializes in tax, venture capital, and the structuring of corporate transactions. He has also taught as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, an Acting Professor of Law (tenure-track) at UCLA, a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University, and a Research Fellow in Transactional Studies at Columbia Law School. Before entering academia, Professor Fleischer was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He clerked for the Honorable M. Blane Michael, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Honorable Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Fleischer's research focuses on tax planning, regulatory gamesmanship, and the structuring of corporate transactions. His article Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds, 83 NYU L. Rev. 1 (2008), was discussed in a New York Times editorial and is widely credited with sparking the debate about how to tax carried interest. Recent publications have appeared in the NYU Law Review (twice), Michigan Law Review, and the Tax Law Review (three times). Professor Fleischer has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and many other media sources.
Articles
| A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 NYU L. Rev. 440 (2009). |
| Fleischer (with David I. Walker), Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation, 62 Tax L. Rev. 399 (2009). |
| Taxing Blackstone, 61 Tax L. Rev. 89 (2008). |
| Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds, 83 NYU L. Rev. 1. (2008). |
| Brand New Deal: The Branding Effect of Corporate Deal Structures, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1581 (2006). |
| The Missing Preferred Return, 31 J. Corp. L. 77 (2005). |
| The Rational Exuberance of Structuring Venture Capital Start-Ups, 57 Tax L. Rev. 137 (2004). |
Courses:
| Spring 2010 | Higher Education and the Law | LAWS 8755-001 |
| Fall 2009 | Deals | LAWS 7101-001 |
| Fall 2009 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-001 |
| Fall 2009 | Tax Policy | LAWS 8407-001 |
| Spring 2007 | Innovation, Network Theory, Social Entrepreneurship | LAWS 8301-001 |
| Fall 2006 | Deals | LAWS 7101-001 |
| Fall 2006 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-001 |







