Evgeny Magidenko

Evgeny “Gene” Magidenko advises family offices and estate planning clients on complex corporate, partnership, estate, and trust tax matters. He leads sophisticated private client work, with a particular focus on clients with intricate and multifaceted tax planning needs.

Gene also advises individuals and entities on general tax planning, tax controversies, and transactional tax matters and counsels both for-profit businesses and tax-exempt organizations on a wide array of organizational and operational matters at all stages of their lifecycles.

Gene clerked for the Honorable David Laro at the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, DC.

Practice Areas

Prior Experience

• ArentFox Schiff, Partner
• Dykema, Associate
• Hogan Lovells, Associate

Education

Admissions

Court Admissions

Awards

• Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2021-2027

Professional & Community Involvement

State Bar of Michigan Taxation Section Council, Member

Press Releases

Events

• "OBBBA Provisions and Implications” (presenter), Advanced Topics in Flow-Through Taxation Conference, Illinois CPA Society Webinar (Dec. 4, 2025)
• “Corporate Transparency Act Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations: BOI Reporting, Filing Requirements and Exceptions” (co-presenter), Strafford Seminars (Nov. 19, 2024)
• “U.S. Tax Structuring Overview” (presenter), National Association of Broadcasters Broadcast Leadership Training Program, Washington, D.C. (Oct. 19, 2024)
• “Corporate Transparency Act in the Cross-Hairs” (co-presenter), FBA, Corporate and Association Counsel Division Webinar (May 16, 2024)
• “Corporate Transparency Act: An Overview” (presenter), Advanced Topics in Flow-Through Taxation Conference, Illinois CPA Society Webinar (Dec. 7, 2023)
• “Taxation of Corporations” (presenter), ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Webinar (Jan. 19, 2023)
• “S Corporations: Preventing and Mitigating Problems with S Elections” (presenter), Advanced Topics in Flow-Through Taxation Conference, Illinois CPA Society Webinar (Dec. 7, 2022)
• “Avoiding Liquidation Pitfalls” (co-presenter), Advanced Topics in Flow-Through Taxation Conference, Illinois CPA Society Webinar (Dec. 9, 2021)
• “Paycheck Protection Program Loans: The Latest Insights” (presenter), Advanced Topics in Flow-Through Taxation Conference, Illinois CPA Society Webinar (Dec. 9, 2020)
• “Sales Taxation in the Post-Wayfair World and Modernizing State Sales Tax Systems After Wayfair” (panelist), COST Mid-West Regional State Tax Seminar, Dearborn, Mich. (Aug. 22, 2018)
• “A Defense of Citizenship Taxation” (presenter), Citizenship & Taxation Symposium, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Mich. (Oct. 8-9, 2015)
• “Bitcoins, Bitcoins, Everywhere! How New IRS Rules Impact Bitcoin Users” (co-presenter), Federal Bar Association Section on Taxation Tax Practice & Procedure Monthly Roundtable (Apr. 28, 2014)

Publications

• “The Corporate Transparency Act Whipsaw Continues,” Wealth Management (Jan. 27, 2025)
• “Classifying Federal Taxes for Constitutional Purposes,” 45 U. Balt. L. Rev. 57 (2015)
• “The U.S. Federal Taxation of Bitcoins and Other Convertible Virtual Currencies” (co-author), Inside Basis (Summer 2014), reprinted in The Computer & Internet Lawyer (Apr. 2015)
• “Is a Broadly Based Mark-to-Market Tax Unconstitutional?” 143 Tax Notes 952 (2014)
• “A 360-Degree Look at Secondment Tax Issues: China, United States, and Germany” (co-author), The Federal Lawyer (Sep. 2013)