Overview
The core of the tax practice at Ropes & Gray consists of domestic and cross-border tax planning, including:
- Structuring mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, joint ventures, financings, reorganizations, recapitalizations, all forms of debt and equity and novel financing techniques
- Organizing private equity funds, mezzanine funds, distressed debt funds, collateralized debt funds and hedge funds, including unregistered and registered fund of funds
- Counseling both U.S. and non-U.S.-based clients on cross-border tax matters, including cross-border investment structures, the tax treatment of international transactions, the international tax aspects of financial products, ongoing tax planning for multinational companies and individuals, and international transfer pricing
- Analyzing and negotiating investments in private funds for institutional investors
- Working with exempt organizations to develop effective tax strategies through fundraising, including deferred or planned gifts, and managing unrelated business income tax issues
- Advising on tax controversy issues at the IRS examination and appeals levels, as well as in tax litigation and on state tax controversy matters
Clients
Our representative clients include:
- Allianz Global Investors
- Bain Capital
- Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Genzyme Corporation
- Makena Capital
- Kohlberg & Co.
- State Street Corporation
- Schroders
- The TJX Companies
- TPG Capital
- UBS Global Asset Management