Myers, Brier, & Kelly – Attorneys at Law

DAVID M. FLYNN // OF COUNSEL

David M. Flynn focuses his practice on all aspects of tax-exempt organization matters and on nonprofit corporation law and corporate governance issues. He provides advice and planning services, particularly to healthcare organizations, regarding corporate reorganizations and restructuring, affiliations with unrelated organizations, and joint ventures and other types of partnership arrangements between or among nonprofit partners, or between nonprofit and for-profit partners. He also has broad experience in corporate taxation and tax-exempt financing.

Mr. Flynn is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a former attorney-advisor to the Tax Legislative Counsel (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy) of the United States Treasury Department. He is a member of the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association and its Exempt Organizations committee, and currently serves as a co-chair of its Subcommittees on Partnerships and Joint Ventures (formerly serving as co-chair of its Subcommittees on Health Care Organizations, on Tax-Exempt Financing, and on Private Foundations and Unrelated Business Income). Mr. Flynn is also a member (and a former vice chair and immediate past chair) of the Tax and Accounting Interest Group of the ABA’s Health Law Section.

Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and in the District of Columbia, he has been an adjunct professor in the Graduate Tax Program at Temple University School of Law. Mr. Flynn is a 1971 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a graduate of Georgetown University’s College of Arts & Sciences.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
American Bar Association

Taxation Section:

Excise and Employment Taxes Committee, 1973-1976
Chair, Employment Taxes Subcommittee, 1975-1976
Exempt Organizations Committee, 1980-present
Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Health Care Organizations, 1989-1993
Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Tax-Exempt Financing, 1993-1995
Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Unrelated Business Income and Competition Issues, 1995-1997
Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Partnerships and Joint Ventures, 1997-present

Health Law Section:

- Former Chair, Tax and Accounting Interest Group
- Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law
- Program Planning Committee, 2006
- Co-Chair, Program Planning Committee, 2007
- Co-Chair, Program Planning Committee, 2008
- Co-Chair, Program Planning Committee, 2009

• Philadelphia Bar Association

- Tax Section

ADMISSIONS

• District of Columbia
• Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States Tax Court
• United States Court of Claims
• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

EDUCATION

• Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1971

Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

• Georgetown University – College of Arts & Sciences, A.B., Economics, 1964

EXPERIENCE

• Myers, Brier & Kelly, LLP

- Of Counsel, Present

• Lundy & Flynn LLP

- Partner, 2008-2010

• Duane Morris LLP

- Partner, 1984-2007
- Associate, 1980-1984

• Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Legislative Counsel

- Attorney-Adviser, 1976-1980

• Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Washington, D.C.

- Associate, 1971-1976

David M. Flynn

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