Tax & Business Planning
Our tax team has extensive experience structuring, negotiating, and implementing practical tax-efficient solutions in global and domestic business transactions, and brings a keen appreciation of each client’s particular business context to provide strategic solutions to complex tax law issues.
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Our Areas of
Expertise:
Mergers and Acquisitions
We work with clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, split offs, and other related business combinations and dispositions.
Corporate Structure
Our attorneys are experts in business formation transactions and internal restructurings, as well as partnership and S corporation planning.
Global Operations
We represent clients in cross border transactions and provide international tax planning services.
Real Estate
We assist with real estate acquisitions and dispositions, including joint venture formation and disposition tax planning.
Landmark Matters
Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Healthcare
Acted as principal tax counsel to several health industry clients in major equity acquisitions and joint venture arrangements.
Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Energy
Acted variously as company counsel and underwriter’s counsel in advising on the United States tax aspects of stock offerings and acquisition transactions by various foreign public natural resource companies.
Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Manufacturing
Advised multi-national manufacturing client regarding international tax matters, including U.S. foreign tax credit utilization and subpart F issues.
Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Logistics
Acted as principal corporate and tax counsel to privately held joint venture in structuring sale of transportation logistics business.
Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Packaging
Acted as principal tax counsel for publicly held packaging corporation in structuring a series of strategic acquisitions of industry targets.
Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Multi-Industry
Acted as principal tax counsel to Fortune 100 company in spinoff and subsequent tax free merger transaction.Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Healthcare
Acted as principal tax counsel to several health industry clients in major equity acquisitions and joint venture arrangements.Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Energy
Acted variously as company counsel and underwriter’s counsel in advising on the United States tax aspects of stock offerings and acquisition transactions by various foreign public natural resource companies.Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Manufacturing
Advised multi-national manufacturing client regarding international tax matters, including U.S. foreign tax credit utilization and subpart F issues.Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Logistics
Acted as principal corporate and tax counsel to privately held joint venture in structuring sale of transportation logistics business.Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Packaging
Acted as principal tax counsel for publicly held packaging corporation in structuring a series of strategic acquisitions of industry targets.Practice Area: Tax & Business Planning
Industry: Multi-Industry
Acted as principal tax counsel to Fortune 100 company in spinoff and subsequent tax free merger transaction.Tax & Business Planning Specialists
Andrea M. Despotes
Senior Counsel
