Swift S.O. Edgar

Education
- Harvard University, A.B. 2007, cum laude
- Columbia Law School, J.D. 2013, James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (Essays & Reviews Editor, Columbia Law Review)
Clerkships
Honorable Thomas L. Ambro, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2014 – 2015
Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe, United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2013 – 2014
Swift S.O. Edgar
Swift S.O. Edgar is counsel in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Tax Department.
Mr. Edgar received an A.B. cum laude with high honors in Classics from Harvard College in 2007 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2013, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a James Kent Scholar and an Essays and Reviews Editor for the Columbia Law Review.
Before joining Wachtell Lipton, Mr. Edgar clerked for the Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Select Publications
- The Corporate Tax Planning Review,
co-editor and co-author of U.S. chapter, Law Business Research, London, Fourth ed. 2022 (Third ed. 2021; Second ed. 2020; First ed. 2019).
- Corporate Tax 2019: United States,
in International Comparative Legal Guides 2019.