William McRae
USA Guide 2023
Band 3 : Tax
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About
Provided by William McRae
Practice Areas
William McRae’s practice focuses on taxation and related matters, including structuring investments into the United States for non-US sovereign investors; the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions; the tax aspects of forming and investing in private equity funds, real estate funds and other investment vehicles; international tax planning for multinational corporate groups (FTC planning and repatriation strategies), tax aspects of restructurings (preservation and utilization of NOLs and other tax attributes, management of COD income); and the taxation of equity derivatives and other financial products.
Career
Joined firm, 1996; became partner, 2005; LLM in taxation, New York University; JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School (1996); BA, magna cum laude, Williams College (1991).
Professional Memberships
New York Bar; New York State Bar Association, where he serves on the Tax Section Executive Committee.
Publications
regularly publishes content on issues related to international taxation, and was a principal author of a June 2008 report by the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, “Report on the Tax Exemption for Foreign Sovereigns Under Section 892 of the Internal Revenue Code.”