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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.”

Joined firm, 1996; became partner, 2005; LLM in taxation, New York University; JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School (1996); BA, magna cum laude, Williams College (1991).

Mr. McRae is a member of the Bar of New York, and the New York State Bar Association, where he serves on the Tax Section Executive Committee.