| Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Transactions |
We regularly advise public and private companies, their shareholders and their key employees on tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures. Our clients include businesses from a wide range of sectors, including technology, life sciences, publishing, telecommunications, aviation and defense, professional sports, energy, real estate, banking, venture capital and private equity. We develop tax-efficient structures to help clients achieve their business objectives, and negotiate appropriate contractual protections against the assumption of unwanted tax risks.
In recent transactions, we:
- Provided CMGI with structuring advice to minimize federal and state taxes in its $140 million sale of AltaVista to Overture Services
- Worked with our corporate lawyers in implementing a tax-free “horizontal double dummy” structure for Distributed Energy Systems in its acquisition of Northern Power Systems
- Assisted in numerous M&A transactions for clients such as BAE SYSTEMS North America, Bottomline Technologies, Braintree Laboratories, Diacrin, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Keane, Netegrity, Predix Pharmaceuticals, Sallie Mae, SpeechWorks International and VitalWorks
- Developed tax-minimizing strategies for debt restructurings, both in and out of bankruptcy