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Overview

Goldberg Kohn provides tax counsel to both domestic and international clients across a range of industries, providing senior attorney level attention to deal strategies, structurings and organizations, as well as inbound foreign arrangements.

Our attorneys provide tax guidance to financial institutions, REITs, REMICs, large and mid-size domestic and foreign corporations, LLCs and partnerships, private companies, family offices and private equity firms with respect to:

  • Business Sales, Purchases, Combinations and Formations
  • Dispositions
  • Joint Ventures
  • Tax Controversy Matters
  • Structured Finance Transactions
  • Executive Equity Compensation Plans
  • Deferred Compensation Plans
  • Treaties
  • Withholdings
  • Preservation of Tax Attributes
  • Settlements

Our firm also counsels foreign-owned companies with structuring the operations of their U.S.-bound investments and has done so for German, Australian, Canadian, Austrian and other internationally owned companies involved in the technology, manufacturing and financial sectors.

In addition our tax attorneys advises lenders and debtors with respect to the tax issues arising from debt workouts, modifications, debt-equity swaps, foreclosure and cancellation of debt tax reporting responsibilities, trust fund tax penalties, and federal tax liens.

As prominent members of the tax law community, our attorneys are engaged in organizations including the American Bar Association’s Tax section as well as Meritas’ MERITAX group, which conducts international tax meetings.

Representative Matters

  • Represented a digital media company in its sale to a worldwide media conglomerate, guiding the client through several complex tax structuring components, including a recapitalization prior to the closing.
  • Represented a private equity client in its acquisition of a freight services company and various affiliates. As the target’s parent company was in default to its lenders, Goldberg Kohn helped structure and consummate the transaction in the form of a private Uniform Commercial Code sale, negotiating heavily with the existing lenders and a number of other constituents.
  • Represented a client, a retailer of bar supplies, liquor accessories and related products for over 80 years, in its sale to a private equity company.
  • Represented a client in its acquisition of a company’s stock specializing in dessert products. Coordinating the buyer-side of the sale involved a complicated structure and capitalization to address concerns of the client and other investors, as well as negotiating and consummating new third-party financing. This transaction required a focused interplay between the firm’s corporate, tax and employment practices, as well as leading out-of-state affiliate firms to help address certain jurisdictional-specific issues.