Transaction Services
Transaction Services – Wherever your transaction occurs, our integrated, transactional tax services group helps you gain access to coordinated advice. Our strategic tax professionals think ahead and understand the external factors that impact your business.
Seeing your business the way you do lets us help your company achieve long-term success by:
Thinking forward to anticipate your needs
Thinking broadly about your business strategy
Thinking beyond the transaction
Our Transaction Tax professionals help you navigate an ever-changing business environment and make informed decisions that align with your long-term strategy.
Buy-Side Transactions
Provide you with an understanding of the relevant jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary tax issues
Offer structuring advice and alternatives to balance investor sensitivities and help you improve prospective earnings or cash flows
Highlight opportunities for improved operational efficiencies and returns on your investment
Help you understand and navigate tax opportunities and risk in emerging markets
Analyze and review your historical transactions and financing structures for reputational risk
Sell-Side Transactions
Help you recognize and address tax issues early in the process to enable you to prepare for and resolve matters in a way that helps increase returns for shareholders
Evaluate alternative transaction structures with you in advance
Help you understand whether and how the use of existing or embedded tax assets best positions you for a successful exit
Identify the gain or loss in each taxing jurisdiction to assist you in determining what valuable tax attributes may be utilized
Restructuring Transactions
Business restructuring (internal restructuring, intercompany account rationalization, legal entity rationalization)
Help you understand the tax impact associated with realigning legal and operating structures
Identify ways to improve performance and strengthen your business by preserving and optimizing capital
Help you eliminate unnecessary above- and below-the-line operating and tax costs and inefficiencies
Assist your efforts to realize the value of tax assets (such as a built-in loss or stock basis)
Distressed Company Restructuring
Provide planning options for bankruptcy and liquidation
Validate, and help you select and implement the appropriate exit option for non-core activities
Capital Markets Transactions
Implement an efficient tax capital structure and collateral package
Analyze and structure the tax aspects of new financings and refinancings to leverage opportunities and reduce the overall cost of capital
Determine the timing of unamortized debt cost deductions
Provide an understanding of debt push-down techniques
Determine the deductibility of interest
Avoid cross-border issues (such as currency control, withholding taxes or repatriation)