The tax lawyers develop innovative business-oriented tax solutions for domestic and cross-border transactions of nearly every kind and description. Reflecting the practice of the firm as a whole, regularly advise some of the world’s largest companies on taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs and other corporate reorganizations, redomestications, debt and equity financings, global enterprise planning, bankruptcies, and insolvency restructurings, private equity transactions (including leveraged and management buy-outs), partnerships and joint ventures, investment and hedge funds, financial products, insurance vehicles and products, executive compensation, employee benefits and pension plans, real estate investment trusts, and other real estate ventures. Such matters frequently raise novel tax issues, and often entail the requesting formal guidance from the Internal Revenue Service on our clients’ behalf. The Tax practice is ranked in The Legal 500, as well as Chambers USA in New York, with a client commenting, “The whole team is highly skilled, capable and they always have plenty of resources for whatever arises.”