Our tax attorneys utilize their knowledge and experience to provide transactional and controversy advice to privately and publicly held and multistate businesses, tax-exempt organizations and individuals in all aspects of federal, state and local tax.  Attorneys in the Tax Practice work with attorneys in other practices to provide coordinated and comprehensive solutions to our clients’ tax and business needs.

In federal tax matters, we have a broad range of experience, including:

• Mergers and acquisitions, taxable and tax-free.
  
  
• Financing transactions and debt restructuring.
  
  
• International transactions.
  
  
• Pass-through entities (i.e., S corporations, disregarded entities, partnerships and limited liability companies).
  
  
• Real estate transactions including tax-free exchanges.
  
  
• Family tax and business succession planning.
  
  
• Tax accounting.
  
  
• Tax controversy matters.
  
  
• Spin-offs.
  
  
• Public offerings of stock, hybrid securities and debt.
  
  
• Industry consolidation techniques.
  
  
• Restructuring troubled companies.
  
  
• Key executive ownership compensation structures.

Our state and local tax attorneys have national experience in matters such as:

• Income and franchise taxes.
  
  
• Sales, use and gross receipts taxes.
  
  
• Real property transfer taxes.
  
  
• State and local tax controversy matters.
  
  
• Tax amnesty programs and voluntary disclosure agreements.
  
  
• Unclaimed property reporting and audit issues.
  
  
• Miscellaneous other state and local taxes.

Our tax clients represent all sectors of the economy and industry including aerospace, defense, manufacturing, financial services, professional services, hospitality, food service, amusement, retail, wholesale, catalog and Internet sales, transportation, telecommunications, e-commerce, trade and professional organizations, public charities and private foundations, and real estate.