Office: Hartford, CT
Phone: (860) 278-7480
Fax: (860) 278-2179
E-Mail: ibrown@roginlaw.com

Practice Areas
· Business, Corporate and Commercial Law
· Tax

Publications and Events
· Congress Proposes Reclassification of Tax Treatment of Carried Interest

Education
She is a graduate of the University of Colorado (B.A., 1973) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D., with high honors, 1977). 

Memberships
She is the Chair of the Audit Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of the Tax Section (Chair 2005-2007)and past Chair of the Liaison with Accountants Committee (Chair 1995-1997) of the Connecticut Bar Association. Ms. Brown is also a member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and the Tax Club of Hartford (President, 2002-2003). 

Iris June Brown’s primary areas of practice at the firm are tax and business law. Prior to private practice, she was a Trial Attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and then was with the Tax Section of the Law Department of Aetna Life and Casualty Company in Hartford. Ms. Brown regularly advises the firm’s clients on a wide range of tax issues related to business transactions of all kinds including acquisitions and sales of businesses, real estate, financing, debt restructuring, bankruptcy and employee benefit plans. In addition to tax, she also has considerable experience in the business law area where she is often called upon to negotiate and draft various contracts, joint venture agreements, and purchase and sale agreements involving businesses and commercial real estate. 

Experience
Ms. Brown is on the Commercial Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association, was appointed a Panelist on the Federal Tax Expert Panel for the Internal Revenue Service's Arbitration Program and was one of 30 arbitrators nationwide to be selected by the IRS to arbitrate certain tax shelter issues. Ms. Brown is the author of Synthetic Lease Off-Balance Sheet Financing Before and After(?) ENRON, 17 The Practical Tax Lawyer 19 (Fall 2002); Representing Bankrupt Companies With Underfunded Single - Employer Defined Benefit Plans, 5 Journal of Taxation of Employee Benefits 162 (Nov./Dec. 1997); Planning Can Reduce Out-of-Bankruptcy Workout Tax Cost, 55 Taxation for Accountants 281 (Nov. 1995) and 24 Taxation for Lawyers 218 (Jan./Feb. 1996); and Striking May Be A Surprisingly Taxing Experience; Federal Income Tax Consequences of Illegal Public Employee Strikes, 9 Conn. L. Rev. 711 (1977).