Alongside its transactional tax practice, Hogan Lovells US LLP also has standout capabilities in transfer pricing matters, including tax-efficient supply chain management, tax valuations, financial modelling, and transfer pricing compliance and disputes including transfer pricing reports. The firm operates across all industry sectors, but has a special focus on TMT, manufacturing and industrials, and life sciences and health care. The department is led by Siobhan Rausch , who sits in the Washington DC office. Also in Washington DC, Cristina Arumi focuses her practice on the tax aspects of capital markets and M&A transactions involving REITs, real estate funds, joint ventures, and foreign investment in U.S. real estate whilst Jasper Howard advises on mergers and acquisitions of both public companies and closely held businesses in taxable and tax-free transactions, including multistep tax-free reorganizations, domestic and international joint ventures, the structuring of inbound and outbound investments, and other cross-border transactions. In New York, Jessica Millett has significant expertise in the U.S. tax issues that arise in complex real estate transactions including Qualified Opportunity Fund structures, private equity investments, joint ventures, and other investment structures involving tax partnerships, and Mark Weinstein has considerable experience structuring and negotiating tax-efficient strategies for business sales, cross-border joint ventures, and fund investments. Baltimore-based Nancy O’Neil concentrates her practice on tax planning, working extensively for global clients in the hospitality, investment fund, and financial services industries focused on the US, Europe, and the Middle East. In Washington DC, Caitlin Piper concentrates her practice on the tax consequences of M&A and reorganizations, including where a real estate investment trust is a party. Elizabeth Adams advises on inbound and outbound tax-planning considerations. Christine Lane left the firm in April 2023. In November 2023, Jeffrey Uffner and Steven Schneider both joined from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP whilst Jennifer Morgan departed the firm.
Key clients
- Intel
- Pantheon Ventures
- ASSA ABLOY AB
- Shaftesbury PLC
- Orthofix Medical Inc.
- HDI International/Talanx Group
- Marsh McLennan
- Pavlov Media, Inc.
- Tetra Tech
- Equifax Inc.
- Stahl
Work highlights
- Advised Intel Corporation in its agreement to sell an approximately 20% stake in its Austria-based IMS Nanofabrication GmbH business ("IMS") to private equity investor Bain Capital’s special situations unit.
- Represented Pantheon in its capacity as a lead investor in the private credit transaction that formed part of Wells Fargo’s sale of approximately US$2 billion of investments in certain private credit and private equity funds managed by Norwest Equity Partners and Norwest Mezzanine Partners.
- Advised ASSA ABLOY on its US$4.3bn acquisition of Spectrum Brands’ Hardware and Home Improvement division (HHI) and the related US$800m divestment of Emtek and its Smart Residential business in the United States and Canada to Fortune Brands.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Siobhan Rausch