Providing Innovative Solutions to Today's Tax Challenges

Creative solutions for today’s complex, multi-tiered business organizations often require blending state and local tax expertise with our substantive knowledge of the federal tax treatment of corporate, partnership, real estate and international transactions.

A significant part of our practice is devoted to sophisticated tax planning and solving complex corporate tax problems.

Our estate planners are sophisticated tax lawyers with broad business experience who regularly deal with the problems that challenge family enterprises and closely held businesses and incorporate that in their approach to planning and succession.

We advise employers and their executives on all facets of executive compensation, from incentive and nonqualified stock options, to restricted stock plans, stock appreciation rights and restricted share units.

We have extensive experience developing and implementing a wide variety of workout and restructuring transactions for distressed businesses.

We are actively involved in virtually every area of international taxation, from cross-border mergers and acquisitions, to joint ventures, spin-offs, restructurings, financings and leasing transactions.

We counsel public charity clients, exempt organizations, and private foundation clients to ensure their compliance with the complicated tax rules specific to this area.

We handle Federal and state tax controversy work from the audit stage through appellate litigation.

An important part of our practice involves helping clients manage the constantly changing, increasingly complicated employee benefits area.

An extensive part of our practice is concentrated in all aspects of the tax-sensitive real estate industry.