BakerHostetler

BakerHostetler‘s primarily Washington DC-based team supports clients with a broad range of tax matters including cross-border mergers, spin-offs and redomiciliations, joint-ventures, restructuring, the creation of centralized cash management and global hedging centers, implementing sophisticated multi-party hedging transactions, and structuring inbound and outbound business and real estate investments. The team also has particular strengths devising and implementing specialized planning involving transfer pricing such as supply-chain relocations, nearshoring transactions, and contract or toll manufacturing arrangements as well as representing clients before the US Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy and before the IRS. Practice head Brian Davis concentrates his practice on representing clients seeking to optimize global supply chains or establish efficient nearshoring operations and is extremely knowledgeable in respect matters pertaining to transfer pricing, permanent establishments, tax and investment treaties and global tax operating model strategies. Paul Schmidt advises on technical and policy issues in connection with tax reform, transfer pricing, treaties, permanent establishments, US trade and business, subpart F, foreign tax credits, GILTI, FDII, BEAT, inversions, and global debt and hedging issues. Jeffrey Paravano advises on tax issues and structuring of acquisitions, dispositions, tax planning, and disputes as well as being experienced in handling tax controversies and litigation, M&A work, and tax investigations. Federal tax specialist John R. Lehrer II focuses his practice on one-off business acquisition and disposition transactions. Nicholas Mowbray advises clients active in the private equity, technology, energy, agriculture, blockchain and manufacturing sectors on achieving tax efficiency of their commercial transactions. Peter J. Roskam, who heads the federal policy team, supports the tax team in assisting clients in respect of US tax policy matters and its provision of tax-related legislative and regulatory services. Criminal tax expert Carlos F. Ortiz , who sits in the New York office, supports the international tax team with ongoing DOJ and IRS civil or criminal investigations in respect of cross-border tax matters.