Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP advises Fortune 100 companies, investment firms and financial institutions on a broad range of transactions, including public company M&A, private equity deals for alternative asset managers, SPAC and whole-business securitization transactions, transformational IPOs, and out-of-court and in-court restructuring transactions. The practice is co-headed by Jeffrey Samuels, Brad Okun, Scott Sontag, and Lindsay Parks. Samuels has significant experience advising on tax aspects of public and private M&A, spin-offs, the organization of and structuring of transactions for investment funds, and partnership and joint venture transactions. Okun focuses his practice on the tax law aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and corporate finance and has experience advising limited liability companies and partnerships, as well as cross-border investing. Sontag regularly structures and negotiates complex merger and acquisition and restructuring transactions for public companies and private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Parks routinely supports investment funds and strategic clients in the negotiation and structuring of a broad range of international and domestic transactions. Robert Holo and Matthew Jordan both advise on federal tax law aspects of domestic and international transactions, including all types of mergers, acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations and spin-offs; cross-border tax matters; joint ventures; and capital markets and financing transactions. Brian Grieve has extensive experience advising alternative asset managers on tax matters related to the formation and operation of both US. and non-US investment funds, including private equity funds, credit funds, hybrid capital/special situations funds, real estate funds, and infrastructure funds, and the structuring of all types of investments by those funds. Robert Killip advises clients on US tax aspects of complex cross-border transactions, internal restructurings, tax-free reorganizations, spin-offs and bankruptcy and insolvency restructurings. The team sits in the New York office.

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