Practice Areas & Industries: Andrews Kurth LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Andrews Kurth's tax section includes estate and personal planning lawyers who help clients with estate and family business planning, planning with respect to gratuitous transfers, and the probate and administration of decedents' estates. It also includes employee benefits and executive compensation specialists who focus on qualified pension and profit sharing plans (with an emphasis on large corporate plans), stock option plans and other non-qualified compensation devices.

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Andrews Kurth's tax section, consisting of approximately 15 lawyers, is engaged in a broad spectrum of services representing corporate, partnership and individual clients, as well as trusts (both business and personal), estates and foundations.

The practice involves the wide-ranging application of corporate finance tools, with a heavy emphasis on the structuring of asset monetizations and asset-backed financings, both public and private, corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and asset acquisitions and dispositions, partnerships, including publicly traded partnerships, bankruptcies, real estate, including real estate investment trust matters, and oil and gas and other natural resources, and project financings.

Lawyers in the tax section have extensive experience handling tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service. Andrews Kurth successfully handled a landmark case involving a tax issue before the United States Supreme Court.

More recently, the firm concluded successful representation in a federal income tax controversy before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, obtaining a reversal of the District Court's decision in favor of the Internal Revenue ServicThe tax section includes lawyers who specialize in estate planning, executive compensation, employee benefits and personal tax planning.

Lawyers specializing in personal tax planning engage in estate planning, planning for family businesses, planning with respect to gratuitous transfers and the probate and administration of decedents' estates. Lawyers who specialize in employee benefits and executive compensation focus on qualified pension and profit sharing plans (with an emphasis on large corporate plans), stock option plans and other non-qualified compensation devices.