We know that you need advice on creative, effective tax solutions that align with your long-term business objectives. With more than 70 lawyers focused on US tax matters, we can help you with transactional tax considerations, including company formation, capital and financing, as well as business and treasury operations.
Our team handles US tax considerations in the full complement of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs and internal restructurings. We can advise you on tax matters relating to domestic and foreign public and private debt offerings, synthetic and hybrid instruments, swaps and derivatives, and hedging transactions. We also provide experienced counsel on tax accounting, FIN 48 reporting, worker classification issues, consolidated returns and information reporting.
Our attorneys work with all branches of government, and several tax team members have held positions at the IRS, and with the Departments of Treasury and Justice. We can handle regulatory and administrative matters at the principal government agencies, and support tax policy initiatives in both the executive and legislative branches. As one of the nation's leading Federal Tax controversy practices, we can also support you in the IRS examination and appeals processes and, if needed, in litigation, all the way up to the US Supreme Court.
Whatever the needs of your business, we are here to guide you through every aspect of US taxation.
Our attorneys work with all branches of government, and several tax team members have held positions at the IRS, and with the Departments of Treasury and Justice. We can handle regulatory and administrative matters at the principal government agencies, and support tax policy initiatives in both the executive and legislative branches. As one of the nation's leading Federal Tax controversy practices, we can also support you in the IRS examination and appeals processes and, if needed, in litigation, all the way up to the US Supreme Court.
Whatever the needs of your business, we are here to guide you through every aspect of US taxation.
Our experienced attorneys can help you with every aspect of federal tax law. Our experience in this area includes:
- advising a private healthcare services company with respect to its bonus depreciation treatment of qualified improvement property (QIP) in response to impact of more than US$800 million in relief programs related to the CARES Act.
- advising one of the nation’s premier energy companies in connection with its plans for a new 310-megawatt solar and battery storage project in Wisconsin, which if approved, would be the largest facility of its kind in the state
- representing a global energy and commodities company in litigation involving the alternative fuel mixture credit
- representing a multinational electricity and gas utility company as US tax counsel in its sale of an electricity transmission and distribution service provider to another electricity distribution and transmission services provider for US$3.8 billion and purchase of a UK electricity distribution network operator from an electricity distribution and transmission services provider for £7.8 billion
- representing a regional generation and transmission cooperative in its development of a carbon capture and sequestration facility that is expected to generate well over US$1 billion of section 45Q carbon capture and sequestration credits
- representing an investment advisor on its US$3.55 billion definitive agreement for it to acquire the full-service retirement business of a Fortune Global 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services, and its US$2.35 billion acquisition of a life insurance company
- representing the largest private telecommunications company in the US in entering into a definitive agreement to acquire one of the largest privately held fiber infrastructure providers in the US
- representing one of the nation’s premier energy companies in its acquisition of a 90% ownership interest in an onshore wind power project consisting of 70 GE wind turbines and is being developed by a leading clean energy company
- representing a major insurance company for teachers and educators in signing a definitive stock purchase agreement to acquire another leading insurance company for US$172.5 million
- representing an iconic American beverage company in every aspect of the tax specific work of its acquisition of full ownership of a sports drink maker for US$5.6 billion, the company’s largest brand acquisition to date
- representing a leading US-based insurance company specializing in retirement annuities in a large reserve financing for its fixed index annuity lifetime income benefit riders with a value of US$3.29 billion
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02 december 2025
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15 juli 2025
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media mentions
12 mei 2025
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