Henry J. Riordan

Henry J. Riordan is assistant chief of the Civil Trial Sesion of the Northern Region Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he coordinates interagency offsets for the Tax Division and is a member a working group on international bankruptcy issues. He has also assisted in the formulation of tax policy and has spearheaded an interagency discussion group on offsets. Mr. Riordan was hired by the Tax Division in 1989 from the IRS Miami District Counsel's Office after he distinguished himself there as an experienced litigator before the U.S. Tax Court. Since then, his work as a tax litigator in the Northern Region has been recognized by numerous Tax Division awards. He also received the prestigious Assistant Attorney General's Training Award in 2016 — the first attorney in the Tax Division to receive such an award. He is currently a Board Certified Tax Attorney by The Florida Board of Legal Specialization and Education. In addition to his other responsibilities, Mr. Riordan has served as an instructor/lecturer on bankruptcy matters for the National Advocacy Center, ABA, ABI, local bar associations and the Tax Division. He earned his B.S. with a concentration in entrepreneurship from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., his J.D. cum laude from New England School of Law in Bos- ton, and his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.