Clients engaging in complex commercial transactions require forward-looking, creative and sophisticated advice to meet their immediate goals and be in a position to easily adjust to changing laws and new opportunities. Our attorneys partner with clients to help them meet strategic business and financial goals and minimize the tax impact of their business transactions. As a team of forward-thinking attorneys, we bring important issues to our clients’ attention early in the structuring phase of a transaction and anticipate the potential long-term effect of a transaction so that clients are better prepared. Our attorneys do more than just identify issues –they develop solutions that help our clients achieve their business goals in the most tax-efficient way possible.
Our lawyers help clients structure, negotiate and document a variety of business transactions – including corporate, partnership and limited liability company formations; taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions; disposition transactions (including spinoff transactions, asset sales and stock sales); joint ventures; and financing and recapitalization transactions – in a tax-efficient manner by working closely with clients, investment bankers and the applicable tax authorities, and adhering to aggressive timetables in order to maximize client business opportunities.
We maximize our clients’ business opportunities by assisting with focused and tax-efficient transactions, including inbound and outbound investments, cross-border mergers, dispositions, public and private debt and equity financings and offerings, recapitalizations, and joint ventures; reorganizing and restructuring multinational corporate groups; creating centralized cash management centers; and preparing for transfer pricing, foreign entity classification, foreign tax credits, foreign currency transactions, profit repatriations and tax treaty issues. When necessary, we obtain IRS rulings of domestic and international corporate, financial product, and tax accounting issues in connection with public and private transactions.