Tax Services

Our Business Tax team helps businesses align their tax strategies with operational goals, ensuring compliance while optimizing tax efficiency. We provide expertise in group reorganizations and restructurings, cross-border financing and tax-efficient structuring. Our services extend to tax treasury, including hedging and debt refinancing, and we offer critical support in tax dispute resolution and compliance. Additionally, we help businesses stay ahead of regulatory changes with advisory services on global tax developments, including Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (“BEPS”) initiatives, such as the evolving Pillar 1 and 2 proposals.

We help clients navigate and manage potential historical global and U.S. federal, state and local tax risks that may be inherited in a transaction. Our proactive, practical tax guidance ensures tax-efficient structuring for acquisitions and operations of target businesses. Clients rely on us for strategic tax advice throughout the transaction lifecycle to help them identify the most tax-efficient structuring options while minimizing risks and maximizing opportunities.

Our Transactions Tax advisory services include buy-side and sell-side tax diligence, tax structuring and planning, tax modeling and effective tax rate analysis. We also provide expertise in indirect tax advisory, global transfer pricing and international tax planning. Our strategic approach enables clients to take control of complex tax matters and optimize outcomes for their transactions.

For companies undergoing financial distress, we provide specialized tax advisory to preserve value and manage restructuring tax complexities. We analyze the tax impact of debt modifications and cancellations, helping businesses maintain financial stability. Our team develops strategic tax plans for asset sales and intercompany reorganizations to ensure tax efficiency during restructuring. We also evaluate the potential tax costs associated with contested income and liabilities and assist businesses with federal, state and local tax reporting to ensure compliance.

For businesses in bankruptcy, we quantify tax attributes and assess the impact of the plan of reorganization on future tax obligations to help companies make informed decisions. We also track and analyze the proper tax treatment of bankruptcy expenses and assist with tax elections and disclosures related to the bankruptcy process.

Tax regulations significantly impact real estate investments, and our experts help businesses navigate the complexities of real estate taxation with tailored tax structuring, compliance and due diligence services. We work with REITs, private equity funds and real estate operating companies to optimize tax efficiency. Our services include state and local tax compliance and risk management, tax-efficient financing for real estate transactions and legislative impact assessments on real estate taxation. We help businesses protect and enhance their investment returns through strategic tax planning.

The increasing complexity of business together with globalization requires more focus on transfer pricing arrangements than ever before. We help clients to meet these challenges with pragmatic and “fit for purpose” transfer pricing strategies. Our solutions involve helping clients to develop and support their transfer pricing policies with functional and economic analysis which aligns the tax outcomes with the value chain of the business. We offer a full range of transfer pricing services including:

• Operational transfer pricing and implementation guidance
• Intellectual property advisory and valuation
• Value chain and contribution analyses
• M&A tax due diligence, structuring and post-merger integration
• Debt financing and treasury
• Dispute resolution including expert witness services
• Transfer pricing documentation including policy documents, master and local files and intercompany agreements

Global and regional tax compliance is growing more complex, and businesses must stay ahead of evolving regulations. We assist clients in managing value-added tax (“VAT”), goods and services tax (“GST”), and sales and use tax, customs and excise duties, as well as state and local income and franchise taxes, ensuring adherence to both local and international regulations. Our team provides guidance on these complex multi-jurisdictional tax matters with services such as nexus studies, taxability analyses, due diligence, remediation through voluntary disclosures or other programs, supply chain reviews and compliance, supporting businesses in navigating cross-border tax implications. We also negotiate with tax authorities to resolve disputes, minimize penalties, and optimize indirect tax structures.

Businesses operating in multiple jurisdictions face complex tax challenges that require strategic solutions. Our Cross-Border Tax Advisory services help businesses manage the intricacies of international tax regulations, structuring global operations in a tax-efficient manner. We provide guidance on permanent establishment risks, transfer pricing compliance and cross-border financing strategies. Our experts assist multinational corporations in navigating tax treaties, mitigating double taxation risks and ensuring compliance with evolving global tax laws. Leveraging our international network, we provide practical solutions tailored to businesses expanding into new markets or optimizing existing global operations.

Tax function operations are critical due to increasingly complex global tax laws and regulations. Maintaining the optimal balance of people, process and technology has never been more important. We help large corporate and private equity clients in assessing, designing and implementing optimized tax function operations which are customized and scalable. Our professionals have diverse experiences and a unique point of view based on working in public accounting, management consulting, legal services and within industry. Due to our lack of auditor independence restrictions, we stand ready to collaborate and provide the hands-on advice needed for any given client situation, including interim tax function support.

The successful management of employment tax obligations and reward arrangements to incentivize and retain key talent can be complex. Our employment tax and reward team takes a technically minded, commercially focused and pragmatic approach, providing advice on all employment-related tax and social security matters for both domestic and internationally mobile employees. We also advise clients across all sectors. Additionally, our professionals have extensive experience in creating attractive reward packages, including both cash-based and share schemes, for short-term pay and long-term incentive plans. This includes the design of management incentive plans and advising on carried interest and co-investment arrangements for alternative asset managers