Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

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Sutherland is a law firm with global reach known for solving challenging business problems and resolving unique legal issues for many of the world's largest companies. Founded in 1924, the firm has grown to approximately 500 lawyers handling matters in every part of the world. Seven major practice areas — corporate, energy and environmental, financial services, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and tax — provide the framework that contains an extensive range of specialty areas, allowing its lawyers to serve a diverse client base that includes a number of Fortune 500 companies.

General Practice, including Trial and Appellate Practice in all Courts. Alternative Dispute Resolution; Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Appellate Litigation; Aviation; Biotechnology and Life Sciences; Broker-Dealer, Business Restructuring and Bankruptcy; Class Actions; Commercial Litigation; Construction; Corporate and Securities; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Derivatives; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Employment Litigation; Energy Finance and Project Development; Energy Policy and Regulation; Environmental; Financial Services; Healthcare; Hospitality and Leisure; Insurance Products and Regulation; Intellectual Property; International; M&A; Non-Profit and Governmental Organizations; Outsourcing/Systems Integration; Patent Prosecution and Litigation; Private Equity; Professional Liability Litigation; Public Finance; Real Estate; School Finance Litigation; Securities Enforcement and Litigation; Tax, Business and Estate Planning; Tax Litigation and Controversy (State, Federal and International); Technology; and Timber and Forest Products.

IRS Concludes That U.S. Lending Activities Conducted Through a Dependent or Independent "Agent" Constitute a U.S. Trade or Business
Michael R. Miles, Carol P. Tello, Christopher Ocasal, September 30, 2009
On September 22, 2009, in its first written guidance on the topic, the IRS Chief Counsel's Office issued a memorandum to the IRS's Manhattan Financial Services Office in which the Associate Chief Counsel (International) concluded that interest income from loans made by a foreign lender to a U.S....

Chaos: The District of Columbia Enacts Combined Reporting and "Fixes" Expense Disallowance Provisions
Stephen P. Kranz, Michele Borens, September 17, 2009
In an unusual twist, the District of Columbia (the District) passed emergency legislation that adopts mandatory combined reporting and corrects existing statutory construction problems with the District's related party expense disallowance provisions. Combined reporting was not seriously considered...

Bankruptcy Court Denies CMBS Lenders' Requests to Dismiss Bankruptcy Petitions of SPE Affiliates of General Growth Properties, Inc.
Alfred G. Adams, John W. Benson, Lisa Alpert Rosen, William G. Rothschild, Jason C. Kirkham, September 3, 2009
Judge Allan L. Gropper of the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a much-anticipated order on August 11, 2009, in the challenge to the bankruptcy filings by certain special-purpose-entity ("SPE") affiliates of General Growth Properties, Inc. ("GGP").

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