Tax

With extensive experience at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as well as in congressional tax writing committees, our tax professionals are highly skilled in handling intricate tax issues with the goal of reaching creative and value-added solutions tailored to each client’s specific needs. Our Tax Group also closely coordinates its efforts with Skadden lawyers in other disciplines to provide a one-team approach to each matter. As an integrated firm with 50-plus practices across 22 offices worldwide, we are uniquely positioned to serve clients in every industry and on any tax matter.

For decades, the unique breadth of our transactional tax practice and our geographical reach have allowed us to represent a broad array of public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, post-acquisition integration transactions, cross-border and global internal restructuring transactions, spin-offs and joint ventures.

Skadden received top honors at the 2020 International Tax Review Americas Awards, including Americas Tax Firm of the Year — the top prize — for the fourth straight year and U.S. Tax Firm of the Year for the third straight year, among others. We have been repeatedly named Law360’s Tax Group of the Year since 2015 and No. 1 in Vault’s Best Law Firm for tax every year since 2010. In addition, our tax practice and its members are repeatedly recognized in the Legal 500 and Tax Directors Handbook.