The McCormick Group is pleased to have assisted in the placement of George Callas as a Managing Director with Steptoe & Johnson LLP.
George Callas, who served as senior tax counsel to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and was one of the chief architects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), has joined Steptoe & Johnson’s Government Affairs & Public Policy and Tax Groups. He will serve as a managing director in Steptoe’s Washington office.
Callas is a 15-year Capitol Hill veteran who spent most of that time working on tax issues at the committee level and for Republican leadership. As senior tax counsel to Speaker Ryan since 2015, Callas worked as lead staff negotiator for House Republicans on the three major tax packages that were enacted into law during Speaker Ryan’s tenure. Along with the TCJA, which Speaker Ryan personally thanked him for shepherding upon signing the legislation in December 2017, Callas led the charge on the Protecting Americans against Tax Hikes Act of 2015 and the tax title of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
The placement was handled by:
David Ris
Principal
709-312-6750 | dris@tmg-dc.com
Ivan Adler
Principal
703.841.1700 x250 | iadler@tmg-dc.com
