Robert Rizzi

Robert “Bob” Rizzi is a tax lawyer in Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Rizzi advises domestic and multinational businesses on the income tax aspects of corporate and partnership business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, workouts and joint ventures. He also advises multinational high-net-worth families on transactional, tax planning and cross-border matters.

Mr. Rizzi also represents presidential appointees through the vetting process. His clients have included cabinet and subcabinet members, administrators and commissioners of various agencies, and numerous ambassadorial appointees in Democratic and Republican administrations. He has also worked on vice presidential vetting and has worked closely with the presidential transition teams of three administrations. Over the years, Mr. Rizzi has represented at least 100 presidential appointees. In 2024, Mr. Rizzi was a volunteer member of the Harris-Walz Presidential Transition Team.

For the past 15 years, Mr. Rizzi has co-taught a course on government ethics at Harvard Law School. He has taught corporate taxation at George Washington University Law School and at Catholic University Law School and taught real estate taxation and bankruptcy taxation in an LL.M. program at Golden Gate University School of Law in Southern California. He is the editor of three chapters of the Bittker & Eustice treatise, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders. Since 1986, Mr. Rizzi has written a bimonthly column, “Corporate Organizations and Reorganizations,” for the Journal of Corporate Taxation, and he was a founding editor of Mergers and Acquisitions, The Monthly Tax Journal.