Speaker
Michael Mcmahon
CPA
EVP Director of Tax
RXR
Michael McMahon is an Executive Vice President, Director of Tax for RXR. RXR is the successor entity to Reckson Associates Realty Corp., a publicly traded REIT that was sold to SL Green in 2007. Mr. McMahon joined Reckson in June 1997 as a Vice President, with the responsibility of starting and organizing the tax department function. During his tenure with the Company, Mr. McMahon has been involved in structuring numerous transactions in a tax-efficient manner. With the formation in 2005 of RNY Property Trust (ASX: RNY), a publicly traded Australian listed property trust, Mr. McMahon took on the additional role of Director of LPT Reporting, where he was responsible for monitoring and reporting on all aspects of the LPT's operations. He later expanded that role to serve as Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management for RNY's suburban portfolios. Prior to joining RXR, Mr. McMahon spent four and a half years in the tax department of Ernst & Young LLP's Real Estate group, specializing in both REIT and partnership taxation matters. Mr. McMahon is a New York State licensed CPA. He graduated from the College of Staten Island/CUNY with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and earned his MBA in Taxation from Bernard Baruch College/CUNY. He is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable's Tax Policy Advisory Committee where he currently serves as part of the Roundtable's Opportunity Zone Working Group. This working group provided written comments and had in-person meetings with Treasury regarding the program, with many of the group's comments incorporated into the final regulations. Mr. McMahon has participated on numerous panels related to Opportunity Zones and was recently named one of the Top 25 Fund Managers by Opportunity Zone Magazine.
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