Tax
Comprehensive knowledge of how the complex and continually evolving nature of tax law plays a crucial role in corporate transactions, restructurings and other commercial matters. Weil’s Tax lawyers deliver value to clients by providing creative, strategic solutions that make sound business sense and are pragmatic commercially.
Notable Representations, Key Contacts
Global Practice
Weil's Tax practice, mirroring the Firm's profile, is global in scope. Our more than 50 lawyers located throughout our U.S. and European offices regularly work with multinational clients and private equity sponsors to navigate the often complex tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions that cross national borders. Our Tax lawyers in the United States advise both U.S. companies investing abroad and non-U.S. investors in the United States. Similarly, our Tax lawyers in London, Paris, Munich and Frankfurt advise local clients on the national tax impacts of their international transactions. We pride ourselves on working together as one integrated team.
High-Profile, Complex Cross-Border Transactions
- Complex M&A;
- Private Equity and Private Funds matters;
- Restructurings and Recapitalizations;
- Securitizations;
- Real Estate and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs); and
- Capital Markets and other financing matters.
Our global tax practice is largely a transactional and financing practice. We provide sophisticated, deal-specific tax advice that allows our clients to accomplish their commercial objectives on a tax-efficient basis. Our extensive deal experience and deep bench allows us to provide real-time advice that takes into account current tax developments. We regularly counsel clients across multiple jurisdictions in connection with acquisitions and dispositions of global business operations, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, and offerings of both debt and equity.
Private Funds – From Formation through Exit
Weil’s Tax Group has a diverse range of experience in all major industry segments– buyout funds, growth equity funds, middle market funds, infrastructure funds, real estate funds, debt funds, fund-of-funds, secondary funds, special situations funds, hedge funds and other industry-specific funds, and in the entire fund life cycle, from formation to exit. We take full advantage of our global presence in designing investment vehicles to meet diverse needs. On the fundraising side, we are able to offer, and negotiate, a wide range of structures tailored to the needs of the important constituencies – U.S. taxable, U.S. tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors and sponsors. For sponsors, we also design general partner and management company arrangements to maximize the after-tax returns for the lead individuals and the investment professionals who support them. We work with large, middle market and small funds. In all our projects, we strive through our extensive experience and up-to-date knowledge to create structures that are acceptable to investors and that enable our clients and transactional tax lawyers to efficiently enter and exit investments, both onshore and offshore.
Weil's Tax Group regularly counsels large investors in funds. Our tax teams in the United States and United Kingdom, in particular, have extensive experience counseling institutional and sovereign investors on the particular tax consequences of investing in private equity funds, REITs and co-investment opportunities globally.
Tax Aspects of Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Weil’s Tax Group also has extensive experience in the bankruptcy tax field, advising debtors, creditors (including creditors committees, banks, financial institutions and insurance companies), equity holders (including fund sponsors), investors, buyers and sellers alike.
Our tax lawyers assist in all phases of a restructuring (whether in or outside of bankruptcy), including:
- Advising in connection with modifications of debt, and debt/equity exchanges;
- Structuring tax efficient plans of reorganization and liquidation, including evaluating and designing structures to retain valuable corporate tax attributes and to protect debt holders and equity holders from phantom income;
- Working to align or otherwise take into consideration the needs of all parties-in-interest in tax matters;
- Pre-bankruptcy planning to manage sales and employment tax liabilities to protect management and controlling persons from personal liability for such taxes;
- Representing debtors before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other tax authorities in resolving disputes over prepetition and administrative tax liabilities; and
- Dealing with the IRS and other tax authorities in obtaining rulings and closing agreements where appropriate.
Key Contacts

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Recent Announcements
- Weil to Add Tax Partner in Paris Press Release — January 03, 2023
- Weil Advises Advent International on the Sale of Tag to Dentsu Deal Brief — March 08, 2023
- Weil Advises PSG on its Sale of Nomentia to Inflexion Deal Brief — March 01, 2023
- Weil Advises in Relation to CVC Portfolio Company Zabka Polska’s More Than PLN 6B (c. €1.3B) Aggregate Debt Facilities Deal Brief — January 26, 2023
- Weil Advises Advent International on its $6.4B Acquisition of Dual-Listed Maxar Technologies Deal Brief — December 16, 2022
Shortcut Links
Named Tax “Practice Group of the Year”
Law360 2021
Named “U.S.: Washington, D.C. Tax Firm of the Year”
ITR Americas Tax Awards 2021 and 2022
Ranked Tier 1 for U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
Legal 500 US 2022
Ranked Tier 1 for Tax in New York and Washington D.C.
International Tax Review’s World Tax 2023
Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax, Global-wide, in the U.K. and in the U.S.
Chambers Global 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax in France
Chambers Europe 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax in New York, District of Columbia and the U.S.
Chambers USA 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for International Tax
Legal 500 US 2022
Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax in London
Chambers UK 2022
Winner of “Tax: Transactional” New York Award
Chambers USA 2019
Joseph Pari Named a “Washington, D.C. Trailblazer” for Tax
The National Law Journal 2020
Twelve partners named among the leading “Bankruptcy Tax Specialists in the Nation’s Major Law Firms”
Turnarounds & Workouts 2022
Awards and Recognition, Speaking Engagements, Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements, Recent Announcements
Awards and Recognition
- Weil Named Tax “Practice Group of the Year” Award Brief — Law360 2021
- Weil Named “U.S.: Washington, D.C. Tax Firm of the Year” Award Brief — ITR Americas Tax Awards 2021 and 2022
- Weil Ranked Tier 1 for Tax in New York and Washington D.C. Award Brief — ITR World Tax 2023
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax in Texas and United Kingdom Award Brief — ITR World Tax 2023
- Weil Ranked Tier 1 for U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious Award Brief — Legal 500 US 2022
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax, Global-wide, in the U.K. and in the U.S. Award Brief — Chambers Global 2022
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax in France Award Brief — Chambers Europe 2022
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for International Tax Award Brief — Legal 500 US 2022
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax in the U.S., New York and District of Columbia Award Brief — Chambers USA 2022
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for Tax in London Award Brief — Chambers UK 2022
Speaking Engagements
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12th Annual IBA Finance & Capital Markets Tax Virtual Conference
Speaker(s):
Devon Bodoh
January 16, 2023 — Weil International Tax Head Devon Bodoh is speaking on a panel titled “Pillar 2 implementation: Latest updates and hot topics” as part of the 12th Annual IBA Finance & Capital Markets Tax Conference.
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PLI’s Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2022
Speaker(s):
Kimberly S. Blanchard and
Stuart J. Goldring
October 27, 2022 — New York, NY — Weil Tax partner Kimberly S. Blanchard spoke on panels titled “Current Developments at Treasury Q&A” and “Cross-Border Acquisitions and Divestitures” and Tax partner Stuart J. Goldring spoke on a panel titled “Tax Strategies for Financially Troubled Businesses and Other Loss Companies” as part of PLI’s Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2022.
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Panoply of Hot Topics – The World Beyond the New Acronyms and Pillars
Speaker(s):
Greg Featherman
October 14, 2022 — Dallas, TX — Weil Tax partner Greg Featherman moderated a panel titled “Panoply of Hot Topics – The World Beyond the New Acronyms and Pillars” as part of ABA’s 2022 Fall Tax Meeting.
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Structuring Spin-Offs: Reverse Morris Trusts, Section 355 Safe Harbors
Speaker(s):
Devon Bodoh
October 5, 2022 — Weil International Tax Head Devon Bodoh spoke on a webinar titled “Structuring Spin-Offs: Reverse Morris Trusts, Section 355 Safe Harbors” as part of Strafford Publications’ Webinar Series.
Latest Thinking
- Profit participation rights as financing instruments in the context of venture capital and growth investments. Publication — By Benjamin Rapp and Lukas Reischmann — PDF — February 13, 2023
- International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) – USA: Corporate Tax Laws and Regulations 2023 Publication — International Comparative Legal Guides — By Devon Bodoh, Joseph M. Pari, Greg Featherman and Blake Bitter — PDF — January 05, 2023
- New IRS proposed regulation would reverse longstanding IRS ruling and upend commonly used real estate fund structures Alert — By David F. Levy, Devon Bodoh, Greg Featherman, Robert Frastai, Hillel N. Jacobson, Andrew Morris, Lauren Gorsche and Brian Senie — PDF — January 04, 2023
- 2022 Tax Country Comparative Guide — U.S. Tax Publication — The Legal 500 — By Devon Bodoh, Joseph M. Pari, Greg Featherman and Alfonso J. Dulcey — PDF — October 03, 2022
- SALT Cap Workarounds Are Necessary, Not Discriminatory Publication — Tax Notes Federal — By Kimberly S. Blanchard — PDF — August 29, 2022
- Australia Finds GILTI Not a CFC Regime Eligible for a Pass From Its Anti-Hybrid Regime Publication — Bloomberg BNA — By Kimberly S. Blanchard — PDF — August 05, 2022
- Friction Between Pillar Two and U.S. Tax Principles Publication — Bloomberg BNA — By Kimberly S. Blanchard — PDF — June 03, 2022
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises Advent International on the Sale of Tag to Dentsu Deal Brief — March 08, 2023
- Weil Advises PSG on its Sale of Nomentia to Inflexion Deal Brief — March 01, 2023
- Weil Advises in Relation to CVC Portfolio Company Zabka Polska’s More Than PLN 6B (c. €1.3B) Aggregate Debt Facilities Deal Brief — January 26, 2023
- Weil to Add Tax Partner in Paris Press Release — January 03, 2023
- Weil Advises Advent International on its $6.4B Acquisition of Dual-Listed Maxar Technologies Deal Brief — December 16, 2022
- Weil Advises Corestate Capital Holding S.A. on Restructuring Deal Brief — December 08, 2022
- Weil Elects 12 New Partners and Announces New Counsel Class Firm Announcement — November 22, 2022
- Weil Advises Dstny on Acquisition of easybell Deal Brief — October 28, 2022
- Graham Magill and Christopher Pepe Profiled as 2022 Rising Stars by National Law Journal Firm Announcement — October 27, 2022
- Weil Advised Guggenheim Securities in a $750M Issuance of 144A and Privately Placed Notes by Jonah Energy LLC Deal Brief — October 20, 2022