Financial products
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Clifford Chance LLP
Rebecca Pereira is a counsel in the Tax, Pensions & Employment Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. Her practice focuses on partnership and corporation taxation with an emphasis on investment funds, real estate, and REITs. Rebecca has experience providing tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including private equity investments, investment funds, cross-border real estate transactions, cross-border financings, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Rebecca also regularly advises on REIT compliance and structuring issues.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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Clifford Chance LLP
Jim Gouwar's practice concentrates on the tax aspects of structured finance transactions such as mortgage- and asset-backed transactions, collateralized loan and debt obligations (cash and synthetic) and real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs). Jim has been involved in the development of a number of innovative securitization structures and has worked with a broad range of financial assets. Jim has experience with private equity funds, hedge funds, regulated investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.
Clifford Chance LLP
Philip Wagman advises clients on a range of domestic and international tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and leveraged buyouts, as well as structured finance and securitization transactions, equipment leasing, securities offerings and other financing transactions.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
William McRae is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. McRae’s practice focuses on taxation and related matters, including structuring investments into the United States for non-US sovereign investors; the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions; the tax aspects of forming and investing in private equity funds, real estate funds and other investment vehicles; international tax planning for multinational corporate groups (FTC planning and repatriation strategies), tax aspects of restructurings (preservation and utilization of NOLs and other tax attributes, management of COD income); and the taxation of equity derivatives and other financial products. He also regularly publishes articles on Section 892 issues, and was a principal author of a June 2008 report by the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, “Report on the Tax Exemption for Foreign Sovereigns Under Section 892 of the Internal Revenue Code.”