Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Tax | Chambers USA Profile

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Provided by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Morgan Lewis’s New York practice focuses on transactional tax planning, tax structuring, and structured finance on a global basis. We offer strategic tax counseling in US domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, spin-offs, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, as well as equity and debt securities offerings. We collaborate across practices with our firm’s structured finance, corporate, investment management, labor and employment, and employee benefits and executive compensation practices to offer our clients the full range of services they need to successfully structure and close their transactions, as well as to resolve tax audits and litigate disputes.

Our New York tax lawyers are an integral part of our firmwide global tax practice, which spans transactional tax planning to areas including tax controversy, litigation (including SALT litigation, R&D tax credit litigation, and fringe benefits and payroll tax litigation), and transfer pricing.

Chambers Review

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Tax - New York

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP offers significant strength in transactional tax work, ranging from M&A and corporate reorganizations to equity and debt securities offerings. It is adept at handling both domestic and cross-border mandates and routinely called upon to assist private equity clients and institutional investors with fund formation. The firm is also noted for its particular expertise in matters concerning REITs.

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Work Highlights

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP represented Bullish in its initial public offering and New York Stock Exchange listing of its ordinary shares.

Strengths

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The team's experience in the subject matter and perspective on the industry makes it stand out.

Tax respondent
USA

I don't think that there is a complex matter that the team could not handle with relative ease. It has a great way of making the complex issues seem simple.

Tax respondent
USA

The group provides clear, concise and quick responses based on deep experience.

Tax respondent
USA

The team's experience in the subject matter and perspective on the industry makes it stand out.

Tax respondent
USA

I don't think that there is a complex matter that the team could not handle with relative ease. It has a great way of making the complex issues seem simple.

Tax respondent
USA

The group provides clear, concise and quick responses based on deep experience.

Tax respondent
USA

Notable Practitioners

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Cosimo Zavaglia

Band 2

Cosimo Zavaglia has a robust state and local tax controversy practice. He represents taxpayers in litigation across the United States.

Cosimo is responsive and brings unique analysis and approaches.

Cosimo is an excellent attorney that delivers practical, business-minded advice to navigate the ever-changing state and local tax landscape.

Cosimo is very technical and provides good legal and practical advice.

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Mary Hevener

Band 5

Mary Hevener acts in a wide range of tax matters, including executive compensation and benefits-related issues. Clients regularly turn to her for counsel on tax disputes.

Mary has deep knowledge into the laws and regulations of compensation, with a pragmatic approach.

She is always accessible and responds within a reasonable timeframe. Her technical expertise in the area of employment tax is only paralleled by the perspective she provides.

Mary's services go above and beyond. She provides very technical tax support. Oftentimes, she will include expanded guidance on potential impacts that I didn't anticipate or bring up in my initial inquiry.

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Richard Zarin

Band 5

Richard Zarin is a strong choice for noncontentious tax matters, including issues relating to international and domestic corporate transactions. His clients include those in the aviation, shipping and education sectors.

Richard is a very strong and practical cross-border tax practitioner.

Richard is a subject matter expert that has encountered every scenario a company is likely to face. He has a very business-minded approach to his work and effectively gets to the right solution.

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