Julia Skubis Weber > Baker McKenzie LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Julia Skubis Weber

Work Department
Tax
Position
Julia Skubis Weber is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Global Tax Practice Group in Chicago. She has been advising US, non-US and multinational corporate and pass-through clients on federal income tax planning matters since 2005.
Career
Julia is seasoned in domestic and international tax matters, with emphasis on international tax planning. She routinely advises US multinational and foreign-owned clients on cross-border tax issues, including internal reorganizations, structuring of outbound and inbound investments, foreign tax credits, subpart F, PFICs, withholding and treaty analysis. In addition, she has extensive experience related to mergers and acquisitions, spin-off transactions, joint ventures, private equity funds, and real estate transactions, including the structuring and formation of private investment and real estate funds investing in domestic and offshore assets. Julia works with clients across a broad range of industries, including defense and aerospace, consumer goods, automotive, and pharmaceuticals.
Julia is a frequent speaker on international tax topics and has contributed to Tax Analysts, Corporate Taxation and Tax Executive Magazine. She co-authors International Tax Watch, a bi-monthly column in TAXES The Tax Magazine. Julia also teaches the Controlled Foreign Corporations class as an adjunct professor in the Northwestern University School of Law’s LLM in Taxation Program.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > International tax
(Next Generation Partners)Drawing upon its international platform, Baker McKenzie LLP advises multinational companies on the full spectrum of international tax planning matters including multijurisdictional supply chain, M&A, IP company, post-acquisition integration, and restructuring. The team also supports on tax policy, tax disputes, and transfer pricing issues. The tax team is co-led by Washington DC-based Salim Rahim, Reza Nader, who sits in the New York office, and Julia Skubis Weber, who is based in Chicago. Nader routinely advises clients on tax structuring for global transactions, regularly as part of dispositions, acquisitions, or legal entity rationalization projects. Weber supports multinational and foreign-owned clients on cross-border tax issues, including internal reorganizations, structuring of outbound and inbound investments, foreign tax credits, subpart F, PFICs, withholding and treaty analysis. In Palo Alto, Stewart Lipeles advises US-based multinational corporations in connection with international tax planning and global tax projects. Also in Palo Alto, Sibel Owji‘s practice is focused on corporate international tax, global transfer pricing strategy and documentation, and international tax controversy whilst Robin Chesler focuses on international tax planning for US multinationals. Los Angeles-based Ethan Kroll has significant experience handling US international income taxation matters. In Miami, Robert Moore advises on tax planning for US and foreign-based multinational corporations and partnerships focused on luxury hotel, residences, and resorts, real estate development, and consumer goods and retail in luxury and fashion.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Tax > International tax
- International tax United States > Tax
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Project finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense