Stephen is a partner and the global head of tax at TPG Global in San Francisco, CA.  Prior to joining TPG in February, 2018, Stephen was a partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, concentrating on the structuring and taxation aspects of complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions, workouts and restructurings, and innovative financings. 

Mr. Rose has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA, and is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.  He received a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego, an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law, where he served as a graduate editor of the Tax Law Review and was the recipient of a Tax Law Review merit scholarship. 

Stephen has also served for many years as an adjunct law professor at both the UCLA School of Law and the USC School of Law, teaching advanced corporate and partnership taxation courses.  He is a frequent lecturer at national conferences, including the NYU Tax Institute, the Tax Executives Institute, the USC Tax Institute, and Practising Law Institute programs, and has written many articles on a variety of taxation subjects.  Currently, Mr. Rose is on the Executive Planning Committees for both the NYU Tax Institute and the USC Tax Institute (Chair), and serves as co-chair for the Practising Law Institute Partnership Tax program.

In addition to his professional activities, Mr. Rose has been a longtime trustee of the Curtis School in Los Angeles, where he was Board Chair from 2012 to 2017.

Eric Sloan is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Firm’s Tax Practice Group. With more than 25 years of broad transactional and structuring experience, Mr. Sloan focuses his tax practice on the use of partnerships in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, and restructurings. He also has developed substantial experience in initial public offerings, including advising on many "UP-C" IPOs in a range of industries. 

Mr. Sloan has represented four of the largest private equity firms and the two largest privately held companies in the United States, as well as many publicly traded companies. He advised on the first publicly traded "permanent capital fund" launched by a major U.S.-based private equity firm and the first pass-through portfolio company investments made by four of the largest U.S.-based private equity firms. He also has substantial experience in the formation, recapitalization, and sale of domestic and cross-border joint ventures, including the largest joint venture in the United States and numerous private equity portfolio companies. 
 
Mr. Sloan is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Committee on Partnerships and as an Executive Committee Member of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section. He is Conference Co-Chair of Practising Law Institute's Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances conference, and serves on Bloomberg BNA's Pass-Through Entities Advisory Board. He is a past Chair of the Committee on Partnerships of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation. In addition, for more than a decade, he was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and he has been a guest lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Sloan received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago in 1990. He also earned an LL.M. with distinction in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 1994. Mr. Sloan is a member of the District of Columbia bar and is not yet admitted to the New York bar. He currently practices under the supervision of the Principals of the Firm.

Cliff Warren is Senior Counsel in the Passthroughs Group in the Office of Chief Counsel.  Prior to this, Cliff was head of tax at KKR and, before that, a large NYC hedge fund.  Cliff was also Tax Director of GE Capital Commercial Finance for about ten years.  He is a graduate of Middlebury College, New York Law School and the NYU tax program.