International tax

Lauren Angelilli

Lauren Angelilli is a partner at Cravath and serves as Head of the Tax Department. Her practice focuses on advising clients on the tax and structuring aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs, restructurings, joint ventures and SPACs, both domestically and cross‑border. Ms. Angelilli also works with clients on securities offerings and other financing transactions and regularly represents clients in front of the IRS on private ruling matters. She is known by clients and peers for her “strong tax technical skills” and her “excellent job of communicating how the technical points impact a deal or business decision.”

Ronald Creamer Jr.

Ron Creamer is a seasoned tax practitioner in all types of acquisitions and dispositions, particularly cross-border transactions. Mr. Creamer is noted for his calm, business-oriented approach and his ability to achieve consensus in complex negotiations. In addition to advising on the tax aspects of M&A transactions, Mr. Creamer regularly counsels clients on the execution and IRS review of tax-efficient financing techniques and capital markets strategies.

Lowell Yoder

Lowell D. Yoder focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global tax planning and international tax controversies, representing high-tech, pharmaceutical, e-commerce, financial, consumer and industrial companies. He advises on tax-efficient structuring of cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures, as well as tax-beneficial planning for intangible holding companies, global supply chains and multi-jurisdictional service arrangements. Lowell also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), handling audits and obtaining tax rulings. He works with an extensive network of lawyers worldwide, developing tax-favorable transactional and operational cross-border structures. Lowell previously served as the global head of the Firm’s Tax Practice. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/yoder-lowell-d/

David Mitchell

Senior Associate

Mike Carew

Mike focuses his practice on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, buyouts and private equity investing, with a special emphasis on cross-border and international transactions. He also advises clients on the tax aspects of securities issuances, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and debt and equity restructurings. Mike has worked on numerous private equity and M&A transactions for clients including: Ares Capital, Bain Capital, CVC Credit, Huntsman Corporation, the Softbank Vision Fund and Summit Partners. He is an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law where he teaches a class on the tax aspects of private equity transactions. Mike is also a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches “Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions.”

Lee Morlock

Lee Morlock focuses his practice on tax planning and transactional matters. He regularly represents private equity firms and U.S. and non-U.S. corporations in acquisitions, divestitures and other M&A transactions. He has significant experience representing fund sponsors and investors in structuring cross-border funds, including infrastructure, real estate and other private equity investments, and in implementing strategic transactions for fund sponsors. Lee also advises Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies on the structuring of cross-border operations, including implementing strategic restructuring transactions and post-acquisition integration, and cross-border financing activities. Lee regularly advises family offices and private investors on structuring management and investment vehicles.

Frank Mugabi

Partner

Lindsay B. Parks

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Arvind Ravichandran

Arvind Ravichandran is a partner in Cravath's Tax Department. He advises clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, restructuring transactions and related financings, and private equity investments across multiple asset classes.

Sophie Staples

A Partner in the Firm’s Tax Practice, Sophie Staples advises clients on tax matters in a variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing transactions and securities offerings. She has advised private equity sponsors, as well as their portfolio companies and other strategic clients, on the tax aspects of numerous investments, acquisitions and divestitures. Her clients have included, among others, Blackstone, Apax Partners, KKR, Centerbridge and BC Partners.

Christopher Fargo

Christopher K. Fargo is a partner in Cravath’s Tax Department. His practice includes advising clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, securities offerings and joint ventures. Mr. Fargo has advised on matters across a broad range of industries, including media and entertainment, consumer products, retail, telecommunications, transportation, energy, healthcare and blockchain and financial technology (FinTech).

Marcy Geller

Co-Head of Simpson Thacher’s Tax Practice concentrating on a wide range complex tax structuring, including private investment fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, REITs and real estate transactions, and joint ventures. Advises private equity clients on tax matters related to formation of funds, including real estate opportunity and credit funds, and the structuring of investments by those funds.

Jonathan Goldstein

Tax partner concentrating on private investment fund formation, tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions (including tax-free spin-offs), tax matters regarding restructurings and bankruptcies, renewable energy, cross-border tax matters and partnerships and other joint ventures. In addition, he was named one of Mergerlinks’ Top Tax Lawyers in North America in each of the past five years, with a #1 ranking in 2021.

Alison Maxwell

Partner; US Chair, Tax Practice

Nancy Mehlman

Co-Head of Simpson Thacher’s Tax Practice, Nancy Mehlman concentrates on fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions (including the use of REITs), energy and infrastructure investments, partnerships, joint ventures and related financing transactions in the credit and capital markets. She advises on tax matters for, among others, Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle and Morgan Stanley.

Amanda Nussbaum

Amanda H. Nussbaum is the chair of Proskauer's  Tax Department as well as a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Her practice concentrates on planning for and the structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, including venture capital, buyout, real estate and hedge funds, as well as advising those funds on investment activities and operational issues. She also represents many types of investors, including tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors, with their investments in private investment funds. Amanda has significant experience structuring taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and stock and debt offerings. She also counsels both sports teams and sports leagues with a broad range of tax issues. In addition, Amanda advises not-for-profit clients on matters such as applying for and maintaining exemption from federal income tax, minimizing unrelated business taxable income, structuring joint ventures and partnerships with taxable entities and using exempt and for-profit subsidiaries. Amanda has co-authored with Howard Lefkowitz and Steven Devaney the New York Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual, which is published by Data Trace Publishing Co.

Mark Schwed

Mark Schwed is a tax partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Mark advises public companies and private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on their domestic and international acquisitions, investments, divestitures, joint ventures, financings and restructurings. He also has significant experience advising on SPAC initial public offerings, financings and business combinations. Additionally, Mark regularly advises on the structuring and negotiating of complex real estate transactions, including the formation of REITs. Mark is a member of the executive committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax section. He is recognized as a leading lawyer for Tax in New York by Chambers USA, where clients note “he's super practical, very commercial and has the industry experience to advise across a broad range of matters.” Mark is also recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” for both US Taxes: Non-Contentious and International Tax by The Legal 500 United States and as a “Bankruptcy Tax Specialist” by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine.

Claude Stansbury

Partner

Douglas Stransky

Partner

Philip Wagman

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.

Sara Zablotney

Sara Zablotney advises clients on the U.S. and cross-border tax aspects of a wide range of complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and spin-offs. Sara also advises clients on the tax aspects of securities issuances (including debt offerings and IPOs), as well as with respect to bankruptcy and restructuring matters.

Paul Sczudlo

Of Counsel