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Create lasting value. Navigate transaction risks with confidence. Drive sustainable outcomes.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) tax services
M&A tax structuring that helps move deals forward
We collaborate with your team, bringing connected expertise from our deals, post-deals, transfer pricing and international tax practices. Our goal: to help you see the full picture and act on it.
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- Acquisitions
- Divestitures
- Partnerships
- Private equity
- Bankruptcy and business recovery
Acquisitions
Whether you’re growing your business or move into new areas, complexity and pace define today’s acquisitions market. Equipped with objective insights across a variety of industries and entities, we’ll work alongside you to help uncover a clear path to value.
- Analyze and quantify acquisition tax assets, tax risks and contingencies to drive better outcomes across the transaction.
- Help develop negotiation strategies that accelerate deal value.
- Streamline processes for smoother acquisitions.
Divestitures
Whether you’re looking to spin-off, carve out a piece or sell an entire company, we know that divestitures are high speed and even higher stakes. We bring the expertise of thousands of data scientists and deal advisors and the objectivity of more than 100 deal analytics tools. Combined, we provide an unbiased approach to help increase EBITDA and speed to market.
- Use carve outs, spin-offs and IPOs to plan, present and position a business for deal value.
- Prepare M&A tax reports to ready the company or business to be sold.
- Reduce the seller’s tax costs and protect tax attributes to benefit potential buyers and help your M&A tax structure improve returns.
Partnerships
To fuel growth and reduce debt, some companies are unlocking new sources of capital by converting parts of their business into partnerships. These can create opportunities for tax-efficient distributions, flexible incentive compensation agreements and tax-free rollovers in acquisitions.
- Choose a partnership or contractual relationship.
- Structure new partnership formation.
- Model projected taxable income and cash flow.
Private equity
Private equity transactions require deal structuring techniques that allow for financing constraints, subsequent acquisitions/sales and other transactions while increasing investor returns. Navigating these deals takes guidance tailored to your market position — and today’s evolving credit environment. It requires due diligence and new techniques to identify and reduce tax risks.
- Plan for tax-efficient debt servicing and refinancing or repayment.
- Consider structures that may reduce up-front transaction costs and provide flexibility for subsequent disposals, reorganizations, exits or IPO planning.
- Advance private equity portfolio performance.
Bankruptcy and business recovery
Transactions involving bankrupt or insolvent corporations complicate tax issues. Distressed companies need to explore increasing value in connection with a broad range of transactions.
- Help debtors resolve federal, state and local tax claims and audits.
- Recommend tactics for addressing tax consequences on potential restructuring.
- Identify and quantify potential tax attributes.
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