Complex tax troubles often rise up in structuring strategic, business and financial transactions and investment products. To discover realistic answers to these hard issues, clients rely upon Goodwin’s tax legal professionals to suggest on the entire range of international, federal and kingdom tax problems. Clients seek us out not simplest to deal with their tax troubles on a transaction, however also to assist them benefit a aggressive benefit by way of growing structures designed to resolve the tax problems confronted by the counterparties.
Corporate Transactions / Mergers & Acquisitions / Life Sciences Representation
Our tax experts recommend on the whole range of company transactions, together with the formation of begin-up businesses, taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, cross-border transactions, studies and improvement joint ventures, era transfers, and leveraged buyouts. We work with issuers and investment banking corporations in reference to securities services.
We paintings with non-public equity clients at every degree inside the lifestyles cycle of an investment, from the structuring of the initial funding, follow-on rounds and the improvement of tax-green exit strategies with appreciate to the fund’s investments.
In the existence sciences space, our tax legal professionals suggest begin-u.s.a.to mature public corporations in structuring equity, acquisition and divestiture transactions. We have pioneered progressive structures to decrease company tax in strategic transactions for life technology groups, including through structuring tax green M&A transactions to offer liquidity to existence sciences enterprise investors in sale and alternative transactions with pharmaceutical organisation shoppers.
We are done in all components of the formation of investment budget and other collective investment vehicles across asset classes, including challenge capital, private equity, actual estate, credit, infrastructure, natural assets and public securities. Goodwin’s tax legal professionals ensure that the fund is established and documented to reduce the tax burdens to its buyers and sponsors. Our revel in consists of the tax concerns of tax-exempt and non-U.S. buyers.
Real Estate Capital Markets and REITs
We are at the leading edge in representing public and personal REITs, real estate personal fairness budget, actual estate builders, pension fund advisors and U.S. and non-U.S. buyers at the structuring of real estate acquisitions and inclinations, financings and joint ventures. Our legal professionals advised the drafters of the 1960 tax rules that created REITs, and on the grounds that then we’ve continuously served as tax recommend to REITs. Our REIT tax exercise covers IPOs and rollups, which includes the most important-ever REIT IPO; equity and debt offerings; M&A, joint ventures, taxable and tax deferred acquisitions and inclinations.