Matt Ehinger is a partner in the Firm's Tax Group. Matt’s practice includes advising clients on a variety of tax matters, including federal and state tax planning, compliance and controversy, as well as guidance on international tax matters. He also advises tax-exempt clients (including nonprofit and governmental entities) on a broad range of issues.
Matt regularly advises clients on the federal tax structuring of merger and acquisitions, as well as partnership tax planning. Additionally, Matt serves as a co-lead of the Firm’s Opportunity Zone Initiative, which provides federal tax incentives for investors making investments in certain low-income communities. Since the enactment of the federal Opportunity Zone legislation in 2017, Matt has helped create and represent more than 100 Opportunity Zone Funds, including several national Opportunity Zone Funds, as well as structure and effectuate Opportunity Zone investments and projects across the country.
Matt also advises clients on a variety of state and local income tax issues, including income tax, sales tax, as well as real and personal property tax. In addition to tax planning, Matt has represented his clients in audits and administrative appeals with the Indiana Department of Revenue, as well as in property tax disputes in front of Indiana Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals and the Indiana Board of Tax Review. Matt's work also includes representing clients in front of the Indiana Tax Court in tax controversies.
Matt regularly counsels tax-exempt clients (nonprofit public charities, private foundations and governmental entities) on a broad range of issues including corporate formation and governance, achieving tax-exemption, tax compliance, lobbying and political activities, unrelated business income and other business matters, including joint ventures, mergers, taxable subsidiaries, limited liability companies and other affiliates to minimize tax liability and protect their tax-exempt status.
Matt received his Bachelor of Arts,
cum laude, from DePauw University in 2006. He then attended law school at Indiana University McKinney School of Law, receiving his juris doctor,
summa cum laude, in 2009.
During law school, Matt served as a legal intern for Governor Mitch Daniels and Lt. Governor Becky Skillman. He also served as a legal intern for the Honorable Sarah Evans Barker, United States District Court-Southern District of Indiana, and as an extern in the legal department of Eli Lilly & Co.
Also during law school, Matt participated in the
Indiana Law Review where he served on the executive board as senior executive editor. Matt was a summer clerk with Ice Miller in 2008 before joining as an associate in 2009.