Adjunct Faculty Biographies

Geoffrey M. Davis

Mr. Davis is a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, where he conducts a broad federal tax law practice. He has significant experience in the areas of financial instruments, restructuring transactions, acquisition and divestiture transactions, and investment management activities. Mr. Davis also represents a variety of taxpayers in the field of real estate and real estate securities. He has an active tax controversy practice, representing clients in contested matters before the IRS. He has served as chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Federal Tax Committee and also teaches as an adjunct professor at the John Marshall Law School. Mr. Davis graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of the law review, and clerked for two years with the Honorable William T. Hart of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Before law school, Mr. Davis worked as a licensed CPA in New York with Price Waterhouse. Mr. Davis earned his B.B.A. with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.