M&A and Transaction Support


 
Guiding you through transactions with tax insight.
 
Whether buying or selling, astute and proactive tax planning is critical to a transaction’s success. We have experience completing billions of dollars of transactions, we know the pluses and minuses and how to solve the tax challenges. Our expert advice can help you understand the risks and ramifications, navigate the process and make the best long-term decisions.
 
We’ll help you develop a structure that reduces transaction tax costs, provides an efficient tax structure for a business following a transaction and facilitates a tax-efficient exit of the business. We review and plan for all available business attributes to maximize their value and use. Even if you’re just starting a business, we can show you the best way to structure it based on your desired exit strategy.

Additionally,

  • We analyze and support all types of business transactions: acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, equity investments, divestitures and going-private.
  • We assist you in determining whether the transaction should be structured as a taxable or tax-free transaction, or as an asset or stock deal.
  • Our transaction tax specialists perform a thorough and detailed due diligence to give you confidence that a deal should close.
  • We work with your legal and financial advisors to accurately reflect your deal in the legal documents, identifying points that should be addressed in the negotiation process and considerations for post-transaction assimilation.

Our Tax Services Group works closely with the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services practice area to provide a full spectrum of tax, accounting and business advisory transaction support services. Together we address the key elements, drivers and details of each deal so that you can achieve your business objectives.