David Skillman is a partner in the firm's Public Policy and Law practice group. Prior to joining the firm, David served as counsel to a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee in Congress for more than a decade and as a managing director at an international law firm. He advises clients seeking to enact tax, trade, and energy legislation, draft regulatory comments, and secure regulatory changes. He regularly advocates before Congress, the White House, and executive branch agencies.
During his Congressional service, David drafted and secured the enactment of legislation supporting renewable energy tax incentives, including expansions of the investment tax credit, the production tax credit, and credit monetization provisions, as well as a variety of other changes to corporate, individual, and excise taxes. He staffed the Congressional Trade Working Group during the negotiations that led to passage of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, as well as supported Congressional engagement on a wide variety of bilateral and multilateral trade initiatives, including passage of Trade Promotion Authority, reauthorization of Customs programs, and Congressional approval of various bilateral agreements, including with Peru, Panama, South Korea, and Colombia.
