Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP’s New York-based transactional tax practice regularly advises major clients, including Fortune 500 companies, investment firms, and financial institutions, on major M&A and private equity deals, SPAC and securitization transactions, IPOs, and restructurings, among other matters. The team continues to advise industrial giant General Electric in relation to its reorganization by way of several spin-offs into three separate public companies operating in the aviation, healthcare and energy sectors. Jeffrey Samuels advises on a broad range of matters, including public and private M&A, spin-offs, investment fund structuring, and partnership and joint venture transactions. Brad Okun focuses on the tax aspects of M&A deals, restructurings, and corporate finance transactions. Scott Sontag’s broad client base includes public companies, private equity funds, and REITs, while Lindsay Parks advises investment funds and strategic clients in relation to joint ventures, carve-outs, restructurings, fund formation, and complex debt and equity offerings, among other issues. The four partners jointly chair the group, within which federal tax experts Robert Holo, who recently led a team advising cosmetics multinational Estée Lauder in relation to its $2.8 billion acquisition of luxury brand TOM FORD, and Matthew Jordan, who has experience advising private equity giants Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, and Roark Capital Partners, play a key role.