Jones Day Adds Top IRS Litigator to Tax Group in New York

Jones Day is picking up senior Internal Revenue Service litigator Justin Campolieta as it expands tax offerings in New York.

Campolieta is joining the firm as a partner, the firm announced on Monday. He spent nearly 20 years in the Office of the Chief Counsel for the IRS, most recently serving as a senior level special trial attorney in the Westbury, New York office.

Jones Day’s Leon DeJulius Jr., partner-in-charge of New York office, called Campolieta “one of the go-to trial lawyers for the IRS.” The firm’s tax team that has more than 70 lawyers globally.

Campolieta was one of the lead lawyers in the IRS’s win in a major transfer pricing battle against Coca-Cola Co. last November. Coke owed an additional $3.1 billion in taxes from 2007 through 2009 as a result.

“In Justin’s two decades of experience working at the highest levels of the IRS, he has been involved in several of the most high-profile transfer pricing matters involving major multinationals,” said Edward Kennedy, co-leader of Jones Day’s tax practice, in the statement. “His deep insight into examination, collection, litigation and settlement of tax cases will be a tremendous asset,” he added.

Campolieta said in the statement that the close working relationship between the firm’s tax and business litigators make him “excited” to join Jones Day.

“This combination of tax and business-focused litigation experience and knowledge is really unparalleled, and I can’t wait to start contributing to such a uniquely talented team,” Campolieta said.