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Winston & Strawn LLP
35 WEST WACKER DRIVE
CHICAGO, IL 60601-9703
ILLINOIS
United States
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Work Department

Tax

Position

Mark Christy – Tax Attorney | Winston & Strawn

Mark Christy concentrates his practice in international tax planning, finance, real estate, and transactional tax matters. He advises clients in a wide variety of structured finance and project finance transactions, including transactions relating to CLOs, warehouse/leverage facilities, and other securitization structures, financing renewable and alternative energy sources, real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs), commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), and real estate investment trusts (REITs).

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious

Winston & Strawn LLP’s Chicago-based transactional tax team handles a wide range of matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, securitizations, fund formations, and financing transactions, with a particularly strong reputation for advising middle-market private equity funds and SBICs. Practice head Olga Loy focuses on private equity, venture capital, and SBIC fund formation as well as M&A transactions, buyouts, recapitalizations, restructurings, and executive compensation cases. Dennis Kelly specializes in real estate and municipal finance taxation as well as securitization-related tax issues. Donald Goff has considerable experience structuring M&A and private equity transactions, many of the latter involving pre- or post-closing restructurings. Mark Christy is strong in the structured finance and project finance spaces. Angela Rohman-Russo plays a key role in the group, advising on mergers, divestitures, restructurings, and recapitalizations.