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. He also advises multinational high-net-worth families on transactional, tax planning and cross-border matters.

For the past 25 years, Mr. Rizzi has represented more than 100 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 closely with the presidential transition teams of three administrations. In 2008, Mr. Rizzi worked on the vice-presidential selection team for the John McCain Presidential Campaign. In 2024, Mr. Rizzi was a member of the Harris-Walz Presidential Transition Team.

Mr. Rizzi co-teaches a course at HLS on government ethics and previously taught a seminar on this subject at Georgetown University Law Center. He has also taught corporate taxation at George Washington University Law School and at Catholic University Law School. He is the editor of several chapters of the Bittker & Eustice treatise, “Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders,” and writes a bimonthly column, “Corporate Organizations and Reorganizations,” for the Journal of Corporate Taxation.