A&O Shearman

A&O Shearman offers a strong global tax practice, regularly providing clients with international strategic tax planning advice and representation in a variety of complex transactions as well as tax controversy and cross-border restructuring matters. The team has notable strengths in Chinese tax matters. Team lead Larry Crouch has significant experience advising on the tax aspects of various international transactions including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and joint ventures. Crouch has particular expertise in transactions involving private equity sellers and buyers. Jay Singer advises clients on tax aspects of corporate transactions, particularly domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, tax-free spin-offs and internal restructurings. Ryan Bray’s practice covers tax planning for domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and advising clients with respect to all corporate tax matters. Bray regularly advises emerging growth companies and their founders in connection with choice-of-entity decisions, including qualified small business stock planning. At the associate level, Matthew Brown supports clients on a wide range of domestic and international tax planning and transactional matters. All lawyers mentioned are in New York. Following the merger with Allen & Overy, the team has expanded. New York-based Dave Lewis, who has vast experience in tax planning for corporate mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, domestic and international joint ventures and global capital markets transactions, and Jack Heinberg, whose practice covers international tax planning, the taxation of financial instruments and derivatives, cross-border financing, CLOs, securitizations and other structured finance transactions. In Silicon Valley, Caroline Lapidus focuses her practice on focused on private capital, where she routinely advises sponsors on the formation and operation of investment funds and carried interest structuring as well as their portfolio investments. John Hibbard, who sits in the New York office, advises on a wide range of tax issues, such as M&A, taxation of capital markets transactions including securitizations, financial instruments and derivatives, cross-border financing transactions, project finance and FATCA.