In a hastily evolving global environment, tax compliance has emerge as increasingly more complicated and difficult. The want for skillful and complete tax recommendation has turn out to be paramount for businesses. Our pro tax lawyers work with our clients to discover realistic and effective approaches to minimize the impact of global, federal, kingdom, and neighborhood taxes.
With a worldwide community of legal professionals devoting their practices solely to tax problems, we are capable of provide incorporated commercial and tax recommendation on planning, funding, move-border transactions, litigation and tax controversies, and legislative and regulatory foyer tasks.
Our customers include companies of all sizes from Fortune 500 businesses to begin-ups, in addition to individuals and tax-exempt entities, across a huge range of industries.
International Tax
We have worked on international tax-making plans techniques and move-border transactions across numerous jurisdictions, such as america, Australia, Asia, the United Kingdom, and Europe. We often advocate on troubles together with:
Structuring
Dual consolidated losses/tax losses
Maximum usage of foreign tax credits
Subpart F taxation
Transfer pricing
Value-Added Tax (VAT) and Goods & Services Tax (GST)
Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) policies
Sourcing of profits
Corporate and Transactional
Having been recognized as “Law Firm of the Year” within the location of corporate regulation inside the 2022 edition of U.S. New-Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” document, our team of company and tax legal professionals has earned a well-deserved recognition for managing lots of tax and enterprise-related matters related to transactions. These include planning, negotiation, and implementation of:
Mergers and acquisitions
Public and private services
Leveraged buyouts
Joint ventures
Reconstructions and demergers
Recapitalizations and restructurings
In addition, we have vast revel in in acquiring personal letter rulings from tax authorities around the sector, consisting of the IRS National Office, the U.S. country tax government, HM Revenue & Customs inside the United Kingdom and the Australian Taxation Office.
Real Estate/Commercial Lending
Financial establishments and other creditors flip to our tax lawyers for counsel in reference to such matters as:
Loan and credit agreements
Imputed interest
Original cost discount
Tax liens and levies
Tax withholding duties
Cancellations of indebtedness
Tax liabilities of borrowers
Tax troubles associated with installed and emerging monetary merchandise and instruments
We also counsel our customers on tax matters regarding the status quo and operation of actual estate ventures and related real estate transaction planning, which include the usage of constrained legal responsibility corporations, restrained and popular partnerships and REITs, the provision and usage of losses, tax allocations, shared appreciation mortgages, and like-kind exchanges. Some of the biggest price range in the United States may be counted amongst our customers.
Fund Formation and Operation
As a part of our company practice, we've suggested and provided state-of-the-art tax work to many funding fund formations which includes non-public fairness, hedge price range and overseas investment entities, and challenge capital. We accomplice intently with the organization’s lawyers in our economic offerings and real estate groups to help at the tax elements of designing and enforcing specialized economic structures.
United States and Australia State and Local Tax
Our team includes numerous lawyers who frequently suggest clients on kingdom and nearby tax topics throughout the US and Australia. These projects most often contain:
Tax controversies, together with administrative disputes and litigation, in opposition to state and nearby governments throughout america and Australia
Counseling customers on compliance responsibilities with recognize to United States and Australia state and neighborhood tax requirements
United States and Australia state and nearby tax structuring and making plans in reference to M&A and business transactions
Negotiating for tax economic incentives from United States and Australia state and nearby governments
Lobby initiatives in the legislatures and administrative organizations of state and local governments across the USA and Australia
Alternative Energy/Tax-Enhanced Investing
Together with the firm's power, transactional, finance, and tax policy lawyers, we're capable of manage all factors of any opportunity strength or different tax-more advantageous undertaking. We paintings with developers, investors, and power price range on the related tax troubles from structuring, financing, and allowing to project development, deliver, and distribution agreements. Our team assists clients by means of creating and negotiating innovative agreements to maximize congressionally sanctioned tax benefits and to qualify for federal, nation, and local credit as well as other tax credits and incentives.
Tax Controversies and Litigation
We have full-size revel in and success representing clients on the administrative degree and in state and federal courts, consisting of the U.S. Supreme Court wherein our attorneys have regarded on tax topics extra than 8 instances. Our group is likewise talented in acquiring personal letter rulings or taking other proactive measures in order to reduce tax controversies.
Tax-Exempt Organizations
Our tax attorneys often paintings collectively with legal professionals of the organization’s tax-exempt company exercise to advise nonprofit and tax-exempt entities on matters, which includes formation, preserving tax-exempt reputation, unrelated business taxable earnings, foundation excise taxes, and mergers and joint ventures with other tax-exempt and taxable corporations.