Dakota Newton focuses his practice on state and local taxes, representing clients in both controversy disputes and transactional matters. His practice serves a range of industry sectors, with specific emphases on clients offering cloud-based products and digital services, clients in the energy sector, and clients in the online gaming sector. In controversy matters, Dakota has represented numerous taxpayers as lead counsel in both direct and indirect tax matters at the audit, administrative, and judicial levels in Illinois and other states. Dakota also has significant experience handling the state tax implications of major equity sales and asset divestitures for both public and privately held companies within the energy and manufacturing sectors. Additionally, he provides strategic advice to middle-market clients on entity and asset structuring to optimize state tax outcomes. Dakota also assists individual clients with residency planning and business exit strategies.