Emily W. Streett joined the Firm as Counsel on January 1, 2003. Since earning her law degree and entering private practice in Washington in 1987, Ms. Streett has had extensive experience advising clients in a variety of regulated industries, including those moving towards deregulation such as the energy, telecom and health care industries. She also has extensive experience assisting clients operating in a variety of unregulated industries, including transportation, construction, agricultural production and distribution, for-profit healthcare, telecommunications equipment sales, manufacturing and distribution, real estate, Internet services and e-commerce. This representation has included corporate and general business advice, financing issues, planning transactions, and reorganizations, arbitration, and litigation.

Ms. Streett has particular expertise in advising and representing business and tax-exempt entities in tax aspects of their ownership or governance structure, operations, transactions, and controversies with various taxing authorities. Her experience includes assisting clients caught between competing regulatory regimes, such as tax regulation and federal regulation of a particular industry. She also routinely assists tax-exempt entities as well as taxable entities.

Ms. Streett earned her undergraduate degree (B.A. in Economics, 1983) and law degree (J.D., 1987) from Wake Forest University in North Carolina and her masters in tax law (LLM, 1996) from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.