M. Carr Ferguson

M. Carr Ferguson is senior counsel in Davis Polk & Wardwell's Tax Department, involved in the Tax Controversy Practice Group. In addition to tax controversies, his practice includes federal and international taxation of corporations and individuals, principally in the areas of business transactions, including sales, acquisitions, financing, and insolvency arrangements.

Mr. Ferguson joined Davis Polk as a partner in 1981 at the end of the Carter Administration. He graduated from Cornell University in 1952 and in 1954 received his LL.B. from Cornell Law School. He earned an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law in 1960 and, for the next 17 years, was a professor of law at Iowa, Stanford and New York University, where he was the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law. He was of counsel to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz from 1968 to 1977.

Mr. Ferguson is the author of several books and articles on federal taxation. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association and former chair of its Tax Section, and the New York State and City Bar Associations. He is a lecturer on taxation and consultant to government and non-profit groups. Mr. Ferguson is vice chair of the board of trustees of Lewis & Clark College, a trustee of New York University School of Law and serves on the council of Cornell University and the board of visitors of Cornell Law School.