Full Name
Ms. Cherish van Mullem
Job Title
Director, Tax Services
Company/Firm
LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors
Speaker Bio
Cherish joined LaPorte in 2018 where she provides tax planning, advisory, and compliance services to a variety of clients, with a focus on estate, gift, and succession planning, state and local taxation, and family business tax planning. Cherish is also an adjunct professor at LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center where she teaches Income Tax I.
Cherish began her professional career representing the Internal Revenue Service before the US Tax Court on procedural and tax controversy issues and contributing to the drafting of regulations dealing with tax collection issues. She later worked for a large regional law firm. Cherish’s legal practice consisted of counseling and representing clients on trust and estate planning and administration (successions); federal, state, and international taxation; and entity governance issues.
Cherish has extensive experience assisting a wide variety of nonprofit clients through the lifecycle of their needs from tax exempt status through compliance and operations to dissolution. In addition, she has assisted nonprofit clients with formation, governance, and reinstatement issues.
As a member of the LaPorte Transaction Advisory Services team, Cherish helps partnerships, S corporations and closely held businesses with options on structuring transactions and operations. She also guides her clients on sales and use tax issues.
Cherish received a Master of Laws in Tax from New York University School of Law and a Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of Science in Accounting, both from Louisiana State University.
She is a Certified Public Accountant, Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist and Board Certified Tax Law Specialist both as Certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. She is a Former LSBA Tax Section Chair, Tax Specialization Committee Member and a Member of the New Orleans Estate and Business Planning Council. She is also a contributing author for the book “Estate Planning in Louisiana,” 2017–2023. In 2022, she was nominated as a City Business Woman of the Year for Non Profit Organizations.
Cherish began her professional career representing the Internal Revenue Service before the US Tax Court on procedural and tax controversy issues and contributing to the drafting of regulations dealing with tax collection issues. She later worked for a large regional law firm. Cherish’s legal practice consisted of counseling and representing clients on trust and estate planning and administration (successions); federal, state, and international taxation; and entity governance issues.
Cherish has extensive experience assisting a wide variety of nonprofit clients through the lifecycle of their needs from tax exempt status through compliance and operations to dissolution. In addition, she has assisted nonprofit clients with formation, governance, and reinstatement issues.
As a member of the LaPorte Transaction Advisory Services team, Cherish helps partnerships, S corporations and closely held businesses with options on structuring transactions and operations. She also guides her clients on sales and use tax issues.
Cherish received a Master of Laws in Tax from New York University School of Law and a Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of Science in Accounting, both from Louisiana State University.
She is a Certified Public Accountant, Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist and Board Certified Tax Law Specialist both as Certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. She is a Former LSBA Tax Section Chair, Tax Specialization Committee Member and a Member of the New Orleans Estate and Business Planning Council. She is also a contributing author for the book “Estate Planning in Louisiana,” 2017–2023. In 2022, she was nominated as a City Business Woman of the Year for Non Profit Organizations.
Speaking At
Recent Developments in Taxation of Interest to Estate Planners