Sonnenschein’s Taxation Practice advises a broad array of clients regarding U.S. and non-U.S. corporate and general transactions. Our services are designed to create tax efficient structures for our clients that satisfy their business and financial concerns. Our lawyers structure and advise on complex corporate acquisitions and dispositions, financing techniques, partnerships and other joint ventures, real estate and non-U.S. transactions. The group has extensive experience in tax controversies, including: tax litigation in state courts, the United States Tax Court and various appellate courts.
Our team regularly counsels on taxation matters with respect to business transactions, such as: tender offers, corporate acquisitions and dispositions, and bankruptcy plans of reorganization. We have advised various leveraged buyout groups, including funds with foreign investors, concerning corporate acquisitions. This broad transactional experience generates a team with thorough understanding of business and financial issues upon which such transactions bear, and to provide efficient and meaningful tax advice in such contexts.
Sonnenschein tax lawyers regularly counsel public companies on a wide variety of tax issues, including consolidated return tax issues and cross-border issues. As a result of our extensive involvement with public companies, our tax lawyers have an appreciation of interrelationship between financial accounting and taxation and a keen understanding of the public company environment. This experience and know-how enables us to be finely attuned to the needs of our public company tax clients.
The national reputation of Sonnenschein’s taxation practice is supported by the leadership positions that its partners have held in a variety of professional associations, including: the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the American College of Tax Counsel and the International Fiscal Association. Our tax lawyers have authored articles for national publications and are frequently requested to address a wide variety of business and professional associations, institutes and universities on various tax-related subjects.
