Meet the Founders
The firm’s founders, Sarah Shive and Will Davis, have worked together in multi-client tax lobbying since 2021 and have developed a strong, bipartisan approach to advancing client interests related to complex tax issues that has yielded repeated success.
Sarah Shive
Sarah Shive has focused her practice on multi-client lobbying exclusively on tax issues since 2021, where she developed deep expertise on a suite of challenging matters including restrictions on relationships with foreign entities of concern, global negotiations on tax at the OECD and potential legislative responses by Congress, and the taxation of digital assets.
Previously, she led global and U.S. tax policy and government affairs for the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade association representing a broad range of companies across all verticals of the technology sector, where her principal focus was regulatory implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017’s international provisions, digital services taxes, and the development of the multilateral tax deal at the OECD.
On the Hill, she spent a total of almost eight years handling tax issues for Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Senator Jay Rockfeller (D-W.Va.), both senior members of the Senate Finance Committee, and successfully secured enactment of over a dozen provisions.
She earned her J.D. from the Ohio State University and her B.A. from Marietta College.
Will Davis
Will Davis has been providing multi-client tax lobbying services to clients since leaving the Hill in 2018. During that time, he has focused on a broad range of issues based on client needs and significantly influenced all major tax legislation considered by Congress, including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and CARES Act.
Based on client interests, Will has had a special focus on the full suite of issues impacting the financial services industry (including taxation of financial products and digital assets), and all issues relating to renewable energy credits.
On the Hill, Will worked for a senior House Republican on the Ways and Means Committee as Legislative Director and Tax Policy Counsel during the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, during which time his work set in motion debates about the endowment tax and the state and local tax deduction (SALT) cap that continue to be key issues almost a decade later.
Before his government service, he served as a legal reporter at Tax Analysts, where he covered tax regulatory and legislative developments for Tax Notes Federal.
He earned his LL.M in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center and his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School.