Having strong tax counsel can directly strengthen a company’s competitive position. On the cost side, finding ways to save on tax payments and streamline your compliance efforts can help improve operations and fund important investments. On the strategic side, smart and creative tax structuring can help bring parties together to close deals that might otherwise not happen.
Our team is made up of tax lawyers who focus their practices on the intricacies of tax law. This allows us to bring clients sophisticated advice efficiently and responsively.
We provide tax advice to a broad range of clients, including emerging and established private companies, public companies and tax-exempt organizations. We advise clients on tax issues at the federal, state and local levels and also represent them in tax disputes. While our team is based in the Northwest, we serve clients across the U.S. and internationally.
Tax is an area where experience adds real value. Tax laws are massive, complex and changing all the time. Deals are put together in intense environments, under significant time pressures, and have many moving parts that can be substantially affected by tax issues. Tax-exempt organizations are coming under increasing scrutiny with respect to compliance. A sophisticated tax team can save money and misery, and help get deals done more expeditiously.
Our lawyers bring specific know-how, whether it be in mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt and equity offerings, corporations, health care, international transactions, partnerships and limited liability companies, real estate transactions and syndications or the implications of settlements and judgments.
We routinely help clients negotiate the tax issues of common and preferred stock offerings, debt offerings, recapitalizations, redemptions and complete and partial liquidations. We advise on joint ventures and on pass-through entities such as limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships and S corporations. We represent clients on both sides of venture capital investments. When appropriate, we can assist clients by obtaining advance rulings from tax authorities on the tax implications of specific transactions.
By collaborating with other attorneys in our firm, we can offer you customized expertise on a broad array of current business issues in almost any industry. And when your needs extend across international borders, we draw on established relationships with law firms outside the United States to meet your needs.
We commit to being user-friendly—understanding our clients’ businesses so we can provide advice in proper context. We speak our clients' language, not tax jargon and are available and responsive at all times. |