Tax Advice for Startups and Entrepreneurs

Nate Cook is an active attorney who represents businesses and individuals in connection with a wide array of complex commercial business transactions. He has lectured at the Johnson School at Cornell University, where he teaches courses on entrepreneurship and early-stage finance and venture capital transactions. Mr. Cook also serves as mentor for the 76West Clean Energy Competition and as a judge for Cornell Law School’s Transactional Lawyering Competition. Throughout his career, he has represented a diverse group of clients, including publicly traded corporations, middle-market companies, and emerging technology startups. Mr. Cook regularly counsels companies on corporate governance, fundraising, M&A transactions, and protection of intellectual property.

Renata Dabrowska is the head of Outsourced Accounting at Sciarabba Walker and a member of the firm’s High Technology and International Tax groups. She joined the firm in 2007 and was promoted to partner in 2019. Her major emphasis is on small to medium-size businesses, in tax, audit, outsourced accounting, and business consulting. Renata has years of experience assisting companies in the high-tech, manufacturing, and healthcare industries, as well as working with start-up businesses, and companies funded with federal grants or contracts.

Rick Reinhold is a Visiting Professor of the Practice at Cornell Law School. Prior to joining the faculty, Rick was a tax lawyer in private practice in New York City with a major Wall Street law firm where he headed the firm’s tax department. Rick was formerly the Chair of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section. Prior to practicing in New York, he served on the staff of the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy in Washington.

Robert A. Green teaches federal income taxation, international taxation, international trade law, corporate taxation, partnership taxation, and the taxation of financial products.

After his graduation from Georgetown University Law Center, he clerked for the Hon. Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and then for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Green then spent five years in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling, where his legal practice focused on corporate income taxation, the taxation of corporate mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, and the U.S. taxation of international transactions. He joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1990.

His scholarship focuses on the implications of international economic integration for tax reform and on the relationship between international tax law and international trade law.