Helping you handle all your tax matters
Tax laws have grown in scope and complexity and now touch every corner of your business life. Our tax professionals understand this important, but highly complex, field and can provide a broad range of services to help you handle any potential tax issue. We assist our clients with all aspects of international, federal, and state taxation. Our practice emphasizes practical, creative solutions aimed at responding to your business needs.
Our clients include both public and privately owned businesses, which we advise on a wide variety of matters, including the following:
- Taxable and tax-free mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and similar transactions
- Structuring hedge fund and private equity funds, offshore and onshore, and their managers
- Use of derivative financing products to achieve particular results for both U.S. and foreign clients
- Public equity financings
- Venture capital financings
- Private and public debt financings
- Recapitalizations, and other forms of internal reorganization
Our Focus
Transactional taxation. If you are starting a new business, we will work with you to choose the structure that will provide you with the most tax efficiency and flexibility for your operations and future growth. If you are acquiring, selling or spinning off an existing business, we will help you structure the transaction to achieve the optimum tax results. We can also help you decide and negotiate the optimal form of financing, whether it’s venture capital, conventional debt, or a derivative product.
International taxation. If your business is tied to the global economy, our in-depth international tax experience can help. We provide tax advice on structuring international business acquisitions, investments, and operations for both domestic and foreign companies. We counsel foreign companies and individuals concerning business and investment activities in the United States; and we assist our domestic clients, both companies and individuals, in off-shore business and investment activities. As a firm, we are a member of Lex Mundi, the world’s largest international alliance of law firms. This membership gives us immediate and preferential access to the highest quality professional assistance in understanding and working with local laws in foreign countries.
Investment funds. The changing nature of modern investment products and opportunities also requires up-to-date tax advice. We have a fast-growing practice in the representation of hedge funds, venture capital funds and other investment vehicles. We are experienced in all aspects of partnership formation and operations.
Executive Compensation. We assist our clients in establishing deferred compensation, bonus, stock option, phantom stock and other forms of equity compensation plans, and assist with pension, profit sharing, savings, employee stock ownership and other types of qualified benefit plans. In this continually changing area of the law, we’ll also periodically review your compensation packages and update them to comply with, or take advantage of, any new developments.
Tax-exempt and governmental organizations. Our clients include large and small tax-exempt organizations, associations and governmental agencies and authorities. Our services to these clients include advice on all aspects of tax-exempt qualification, operation and fund raising, tax-exempt and conventional financing, unrelated business tax matters, and the structure of joint ventures or other investments involving taxable entities.
