WilmerHale Strengthens Transactional Department and Corporate Practice with the Addition of Leading Tax Practitioner, David Strong

• 2.18.2025

WilmerHale is proud to announce that leading tax lawyer David Strong has joined the firm as a partner in its Transactional Department, bringing his extensive experience in advising public and private clients on a wide range of corporate tax issues. Resident in the Denver office, and positioned to work with transaction teams across the firm, Strong’s arrival reinforces the continued growth of the firm’s Corporate Practice.

“David’s expertise in handling complex tax issues will be a tremendous asset to our corporate clients,” said Anjan Sahni, WilmerHale Managing Partner. “His addition will further enhance our ability to provide comprehensive solutions across various practice areas.”

“David joins at an exciting time for the Corporate Practice and our Denver office, and we are thrilled to welcome him,” said Mindy Sooter, Partner-in-Charge of WilmerHale’s Denver Office. “His addition further strengthens a practice that is essential to many clients across the firm and his experience will be invaluable as we continue to expand our presence in the region and provide top-notch services to our national clients.”

Strong’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border M&A, partnerships and joint ventures, spin-offs and restructurings, private equity and venture capital investments, and a wide range of debt and equity financing transactions. He routinely works with many types of business enterprises, ranging from very small start-ups to more mature mid-size and large private companies (including unicorns and decacorns), as well as a variety of Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 public companies.

Strong’s extensive experience also spans a variety of industries and sectors, including life sciences and healthcare, technology and e-commerce, internet and telecommunications, consumer, manufacturing, financial services, media and entertainment, mining and natural resources and real estate.

“Virtually every client of the Corporate Practice seeks tax advice in connection with inflection points in its lifecycle, whether that be a venture financing, a merger or acquisition, a capital markets transaction or a dissolution.,” said Kim Wethly, Chair of the firm’s Tax Practice. “We are highly impressed by the breadth of David’s substantive expertise in the corporate tax issues that most affect WilmerHale’s clients, as well as David’s ability to counsel clients through complex transactions. I am delighted that David is joining the WilmerHale tax team.”

“I’m extremely excited to join WilmerHale, a truly dynamic and storied firm renowned for its world-class legal professionals and unwavering dedication to client service,” said Strong. “The opportunity to contribute to an expanding full-service corporate practice that is both innovative and highly respected is incredibly attractive. I look forward to working with such talented professionals and helping to drive the firm’s continued success and standards of excellence.”

Strong received a BS and BA in Economics and Finance from the University of Denver in 1992, his JD from Stanford Law School in 1995, and his LLM in Taxation from New York University in 1997.

Prior to joining the firm, Strong was most recently a partner at another international law firm where he focused on complex transactional tax matters.  Earlier in his career, Strong also previously worked on Wall Street as an investment banking professional in the mergers and acquisitions group of a global financial institution.