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Tax

Continuing market uncertainty and new financial regulations have created significant challenges for business leaders. With change, however, often comes opportunity. To navigate today’s increasingly complex tax regimes and regulatory frameworks you need the advice of highly experienced global tax lawyers. We can help.

  • "Paul Hastings has excellent subject matter experts that can deal with complex matters in a very practical manner.”

    Chambers USA, 2023

Business-Savvy Counsel

Our Tax lawyers act as business consultants, advising companies on their transactional, business-planning, and dispute-related tax matters. We focus on creatively resolving potential tax and structural problems, so that our clients can achieve their goals efficiently and seamlessly.

Our team includes lawyers recognized internationally for their work in critical and evolving areas of tax law. Our highly experienced transactional lawyers handle the full range of tax issues that frequently arise in structuring finance and capital markets transactions. For our clients, this means a strong working relationship with corporate tax lawyers who understand their business, their industry, and their legal and business challenges.

  • Advised Primary Wave on the tax aspects of its US$2B strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management.

  • Advised SD Biosensor and SJL Partners on the tax aspects in the US$1.53B acquisition of Meridian Bioscience.

  • Advised FiscalNote on the tax aspects of its US$1.3B business combination with Duddell Street Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.

  • Advised Barclays Bank, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, Jefferies, Lloyds of London, Sumitomo Mitsui, Goldman, Natwest, and Unicredit as senior arrangers and Broad Street, Goldman MBD, KKR Credit, Canyon, Albacore and Carlyle Credit as preferred notes providers, on the tax aspects of the £2.67B financing for Advent International’s public-to-private acquisition of Ultra plc.

A Leading Tax Advisory Practice

  • We are internationally recognized as one of the preeminent tax practices in telecommunications, energy, executive compensation, and tax-exempt and tax-favored investments.

  • Our team also provides innovative tax advice related to real estate and real estate funds, leveraged finance, capital markets, private equity, restructurings, investment management, and project finance.

Recognition for Our Tax Practice

  • Shortlisted for two “Tax Firm of the Year” in Los Angeles and New York by ITR Americas Tax Awards 2023

  • Shortlisted for “Tax Firm of the Year” in the United Kingdom by ITR EMEA Tax Awards 2023

  • Recognized by Chambers as a leading tax advisory practice in the U.S. and Europe.

  • Recognized by Legal 500 as a leading tax advisory practice in the U.S.

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