Mr. Trier is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Tax Department. His practice focuses on corporate finance, derivatives, structured finance, leasing and other complex financial transactions. He also has extensive experience in domestic and international tax planning for corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs and private equity investments, and has done a significant amount of work involving novel executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements and insurance products. In addition to his tax planning practice, Mr. Trier has represented clients on ruling and legislative matters and in tax controversies.

Mr. Trier served as Tax Legislative Counsel and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy in the Treasury Department in 1988 and 1989. He joined Davis Polk as a partner in 1998.

He graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, from Indiana University in 1970, did graduate work in history and international affairs at Princeton University, and in 1974 received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was associate editor and note editor of the Michigan Law Review.

He was formerly chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation, and on the executive committee of the Taxation Section of the New York State Bar Association. He is admitted to the bars of New York and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Trier is listed as a leading tax lawyer in several legal industry publications, including Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2008, 2007); Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2007); Practical Law Company’s Cross-Border Tax on Corporate Transactions Handbook (2007/08); Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal – International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (2008 Compendium Volume) and Expert Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers – Best of the Best US (2008); Legalease’s Tax Directors Handbook (2008); and American Lawyer Media’s Corporate Counsel: Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Tax Law (2007).