Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s non-contentious tax practice, with offices in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, and Palo Alto, has a foothold in a wide range of key industries, including tech, media, retail, life sciences, real estate, mining, and insurance. A recent highlight for the practice has been its representation of Liberty Media Corporation in connection with its $2.7bn split-off of the baseball team Atlanta Braves and the real estate surrounding the Braves’ stadium. Practice head Eric Sensenbrenner, based in Washington DC, has considerable experience handling the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and capital markets transactions for household names such as Apple, Ford Motor Company, IBM, and Pfizer. David Polster, head of the tax group in Chicago, offers broad expertise covering partnership transactions, mergers, IPOs, REITs, regulated investment companies, Section 1031 exchanges, and restructurings. New York tax head Steven Matays focuses on M&A, spin-offs, debt and equity offerings, corporate and partnership restructurings, and joint ventures, while David Rievman, also in New York, regularly represents public corporations, privately held businesses, investment banks, and private equity sponsors. Palo Alto’s Nathan Giesselman is active in the private equity and entertainment spaces.