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Our international client base demands international tax expertise. We advise U.S. corporations in connection with their foreign activities and foreign corporations in connection with their U.S. activities.
Our advice includes structuring acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Where necessary, we work with local tax advisors (with many of whom we have established relationships) to determine optimal structures and are happy to coordinate that advice if that’s what the client wants.
We are expert in the special tax considerations that apply to U.S. persons holding interests in foreign entities, including the rules applicable to controlled foreign corporations and passive foreign investment companies. (This comes in very handy when floating a foreign corporation’s stock in the United States.)
We regularly assist clients in developing and implementing agreements relating to the cross-border sales of tangible and intangible property, and in the sale, licensing and development of intangible property. In fact, one of our partners teaches a law school class on intellectual property.
We have significant experience advising foreign-based corporations and investors regarding inbound investments in the U.S., including through the establishment of branches or subsidiaries, acquisitions of existing businesses, and through the formation of joint ventures and strategic alliances with U.S.-based corporations and venture capital investments.
U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Law Firm of the Year 2016 Litigation – Tax
U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms 2017 National: Litigation – Tax (Tier 1) National: Tax Law (Tier 1) New York: Litigation – Tax (Tier 1) New York: Tax Law (Tier 1) Sacramento: Litigation – Tax (Tier 1) San Francisco: Litigation – Tax (Tier 1) San Francisco: Tax Law (Tier 1) Washington, D.C: Litigation – Tax (Tier 2) Washington, D.C: Tax Law – (Tier 1)
Chambers USA 2017 National: Tax Controversy California: Tax New York: Tax
Law360 2013 Tax Practice Group of the Year
Legal 500 US 2017 International: Tax US Taxes: Financial Products US Taxes: Contentious US Taxes: Non-Contentious
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