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Maximilian Viski-Hanka

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About

Maximilian Viski-Hanka is a corporate attorney in DLA Piper’s Investment Funds practice with a deep knowledge of private fund formation and structuring as well as partnership, corporate, and international taxation.  Maximilian frequently advises fund sponsors on the launch and continued operation of both closed-end and open-ended funds across the asset classes and on the tax aspects related to the purchase and disposition of fund investments. 

In addition to Maximilian’s fund formation and transactional tax work, he advises a diverse range of clients, including individuals, closely held corporations, family offices, non-U.S. individuals and businesses, and tax-exempt organizations with their respective tax planning strategies.

Maximilian earned his LL.M in taxation from the New York University School of Law where he was a Graduate Editor of the Tax Law Review.  Maximilian is a 2015 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law where he was elected to be a member of the Order of the Coif.  He speaks Hungarian and Spanish.

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EXPERIENCE

  • Represented numerous private funds, general partners and investment managers in connection with various fund formation matters.
  • Represented numerous private funds in connection with all tax aspects related to the sale and disposition of over 150 portfolio companies.
  • Represented numerous private funds, general partners, investment managers and investors in connection with the tax aspects related to the launch of, and various investments into, private funds.
  • Represented numerous non-US investors and US tax-exempt investors in connection various UBTI, ECI and CAI planning and investment analysis.
Languages
  • Hungarian
  • Spanish
Education
  • L.L.M., New York University, 2016
    Graduate Editor of the Tax Law Review
  • J.D., University of Miami, 2015, summa cum laude
  • B.S., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2011

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Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Florida Bar Tax Section
  • Former Member of the Florida Bar Tax Section Sub-Committee on Partnership Taxation

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