John Baron

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John has provided clients tax structuring advice on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other transactions for more than 25 years. He leads Alston & Bird’s Federal & International Tax Group and is the former chair of the firm’s Partners Committee.

His practice is principally transactional in nature, and his clients include both domestic and foreign companies and financial institutions, as well as private equity firms, CDOs, and hedge funds. He regularly provides tax structuring advice and renders tax opinions on mergers and acquisitions, structured finance transactions, securitizations involving REMICS, grantor trusts and CDOs, and cross-border financings.

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