Jason Mulvihill

Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs

While serving as a member of the KEMB Productions leadership team, Jason is also the President of Capitol Asset Strategies, which provides strategic advice, guidance, and risk management on complex legal, regulatory, legislative, and transactional issues that confront financial services firms and entertainment businesses.

Mulvihill previously served as the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and Head of Government Affairs at the American Investment Council for over 12 years. In that role, Mulvihill spearheaded advocacy efforts for many of the leading private equity, growth capital, and private credit firms in the world. He oversaw the AIC’s Regulatory Committee, General Counsels Committee, Tax Committee, the Private Credit Working Group, and the Chief Compliance Officers Working Group.

Mulvihill’s accomplishments include:

•  Led multiple advocacy campaigns that defeated or modified proposed tax and regulatory changes, including several high-profile conflicts over the appropriate taxation of carried interest capital gains. Collectively, these campaigns saved billions of dollars for private investment firms and preserved the license to operate for thousands of businesses.
•  Achieved beneficial regulatory adjustments for private equity and private credit on numerous issues including Systemically Important Financial Institution designation, aggregation of positions, incentive-based compensation, the Volcker Rule, independence of compensation committees, auditor independence, the custody rule, CFIUS, and Form PF.
•  Directed the successful effort to provide relief from new FinCEN beneficial ownership disclosure requirements for registered investment advisers, exempt reporting advisers, and their pooled investment vehicles.  

Before joining the AIC, Mulvihill served as a Legislative Director and Chief Counsel in the United States Senate. In this capacity, Mulvihill was responsible for tax and trade issues before the Senate Finance Committee. He was one of the principal staff who crafted the bipartisan renewable energy tax credit legislation signed into law in 2008. In 2009, he developed and secured enactment of cancellation of debt income legislation.

Mulvihill previously served as Senior Counsel for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Before working on Capitol Hill, Mulvihill was an Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C., practicing antitrust law. Mulvihill began his professional career in Los Angeles, as a Creative Executive at Crusader Entertainment.

Mulvihill graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University, and received his law degree from Columbia University Law School. He is a member of the New York State, District of Columbia, and United States Supreme Court Bars.