U S Taxation Of International Mergers Acquisitions And Joint Ventures

This user-friendly resource is comprised of two complementary parts: first, a practical overview of certain key tax aspects of international transactions that have general application, followed by twenty-one detailed country profiles, pinpointing each jurisdiction's handling of such areas of concern as entity classification, taxable transactions, tax-free transactions (both domestically and cross-border), loss planning, IP planning, compensation arrangements, acquisition financing, JV planning, VAT issues, tax treaty usage, and much more. The experts in each country suggest solutions designed to maximize effective tax planning and satisfy compliance obligations. The work will assist in planning and evaluating strategies for transactions in single and multiple jurisdictions, as well as in implementing them. It further will allow an easy comparison of key tax aspects in major jurisdictions. Addressing an important information gap in an area of widespread commercial concern, this resource will be welcomed by international tax counsel, corporate and financial services attorneys, and corporate planning and compliance professionals. Contributing authors: Marti Adroer, Soo-Jeong Ahn, Javier Asensio, Daniel Bader, Xavier Berre, Peter H. Blessing, Jose Carlos Silva, Agn�s Charpenet, David Caupers, Stephan Eilers, Shefali Goradia, Gabriel Gotlib, Daniel Gustafsson, Richard Hendriks, Werner Heyvaert, Soraya M. Jamal, John Jangwoon Kwak, Josh Jones, Sophie Jouniaux, Janne Juusela, Michael Khayat, Kirsten Kjellander, Robert Kopstein, Daniel Lehmann, Sanna Lindqvist, Margriet E. Lukkien, Ricardo Luiz Becker, Victor Matchekhin, Michael McGowan, Patrick Mears, Riccardo Michelutti, Takeo Mizutani, Stephen Nelson, Janette Pantry, Peter Reinarz, Eric N. Roose, M�nica Sada Garibay, Martin Schiessl, Michael H. Shikuma, Ansgar A. Simon, Jin Soo Soh, James Smith, Raoul Stocker, Andrew Stuart, Peng Tao, Peter Utterstr�m, Adalberto Valadez, Maarten J.M. van der Weijden, Richard Vann, Chris Van Loan, Fernando M. Vaquero, Fl�vio Veitzman, Sonia Velasco and Sabrina Wong. "

Tax Planning for International Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Restructurings Fifth Edition Edited by Peter H. Blessing and Ansgar A. Simon About the editors: Peter H. Blessing is Associate Chief Counsel, International, at the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service. Before his appointment in April 2019, he was the head of cross-border corporate transactions in KPMG’s Washington National Tax group. He is a member of Washington National Tax practice of KPMG LLP. His practice involves transactional, advisory and controversy matters, generally in a cross-border context. Peter obtained his LL.M. Taxation from New York University School of Law and has also earned degrees from Princeton University and Columbia Law School. Ansgar A. Simon heads the transactional tax practice of Covington & Burling LLP in New York. His broad-based transactional tax practice covers mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring transactions, divestitures, spin-offs, and joint ventures, as well as the financing of such transactions, generally in a cross-border context. Ansgar received his degree in law from Stanford Law School and a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. About the book: Tax Planning for International Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Restructurings is a practical overview of key tax aspects of international transactions that have general applications, followed by twenty detailed country profiles. Transactional tax planning always is of critical importance to sound deal making. In the international arena, cross-border mergers and acquisitions continue to proliferate as companies seek to maximize global market opportunities. Whether the transaction be strategic or opportunistic, transformational or conventional expansion, third party or internal value-enhancing restructuring, it is crucial for management and counsel to develop a working knowledge of the salient features of the relevant tax law in a broad range of global jurisdictions. This book, now in its fifth edition, distils knowledge of the tax aspects involved in such transactions across international borders. What’s in this book: This book considers each jurisdiction’s handling of areas of concern in international tax planning such as: – entity classification; – structuring taxable transactions; – structuring tax-free transactions (both in domestic and cross-border transactions); – loss planning; – IP planning; – compensation arrangements; – acquisition financing; – joint venture planning; – value added tax issues; and – tax treaty usage. The experts in each country suggest solutions designed to maximize effective tax planning and satisfy compliance obligations. How this will help you: This user-friendly work assists in planning and evaluating strategies for transactions, both nationally and internationally, in single and multiple jurisdictions, as well as in implementing them. This book further allows an easy comparison of key tax aspects in major jurisdictions, thereby providing not only an easy understanding of the key structuring points in context but also critical issue-spotting as well as highlighting potential value-enhancing strategies. Addressing an important information gap in an area of widespread commercial concern, this resource helps international tax counsel, corporate and financial services attorneys, and corporate planning and compliance professionals to confidently approach challenging situations in both national and international regime. Editors: Peter H. Blessing and Ansgar A. Simon

"By assembling the highly focused works of more than two dozen businessmen, lawyers, accountants, investment bankers, consultants, and experts in such fields as risk management and human resources, BenDaniel and Rosenbloom seamlessly illuminate a complex subject."-Paul E. Graf, President and CEO, Axel Johnson Inc. This fully revised Second Edition shows readers how to find, analyze, structure, and negotiate international deals.

To view or download the 2018 Supplement to this book, click here. M&A Statutes, Rules, and Documents Supplement for Business Planning for Mergers and Acquisitions, Fourth Edition, is available to access by clicking here. This book provides a transactional approach to many of the issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including corporate, securities, antitrust, Federal income taxation, accounting, and valuation. The principal purpose of this book is to help train law students in the art of doing M&A deals. The statutes, rules, regulations, and documentary appendices referred to in this book are contained in a companion volume: Thompson, M&A Statutes, Rules, and Documents for Business Planning for Mergers and Acquisitions (Carolina Academic Press, 2015), which will be available at no cost on this page at the end of April 2015. The book is divided into four parts: Part I, The Building Blocks; Part II, Consensual Transactions; Part III, Hostile Transactions; and Part IV, Special Topics. Part I, The Building Blocks, looks at issues likely to be faced in both consensual and hostile transactions, including shareholder voting and dissenting rules, directors'' fiduciary duties, basic securities considerations, tax aspects, accounting treatment, valuation, antitrust, pre-merger notification, due diligence, and preliminary deal documents. Part II, Consensual Transactions, looks at the following types of M&A transactions: acquisitions of the stock of closely held corporations; acquisitions of the assets of closely held corporations; acquisitions of publicly held corporations by merger; leveraged buy-outs; going private transactions; and the drafting of various types of acquisition agreements. Part III, Hostile Transactions, addresses the following Federal and state law aspects of these transactions: proxy contests; the impact of the Williams Act provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on open market purchases; the impact of the Williams Act on tender offers, including two-step transactions involving a consensual tender offer followed by a merger; state regulation of tender offers; and state regulation of defensive tactics employed by a target''s management. Part IV, Special Topics, examines, or provides an introduction to, the following advanced M&A topics: spin-offs (i.e., transactions in which a parent corporation distributes the stock of a subsidiary to the parent''s shareholders); shareholder activism, which has become a very important issue for many large publicly held corporations; international acquisitions, including: inbound acquisitions (i.e., acquisitions by foreign acquirors of U.S. targets); outbound acquisitions (i.e., acquisitions by U.S. acquirors of foreign targets); and a look at the regulation of M&A in the EU, South Africa, and China; brief introductions to: M&A in four regulated industries (i.e., the banking, telecom, public utility, and healthcare industries); bankruptcy M&A; and joint ventures, which are an alternative to M&A; and ethical issues in M&A. This edition follows the structure of the third edition with the following major changes and additions: new and current materials have been added to virtually all of the chapters; the materials dealing with freeze-out mergers and going private transactions, which previously were addressed in Chapter 24, have been integrated into the coverage of LBOs in Chapter 14; virtually all of the cases and materials dealing with fiduciary duties are now included in Chapter 3, and where such issues arise in other chapters, references are made to the materials in Chapter 3; in view of the increasing importance of shareholder activism, Chapter 25 now focuses exclusively on that topic; and Chapter 27 now provides brief introductions to the following topics, which were covered in greater detail in the third edition: banking M&A (former Chapter 27); telecommunications M&A (former Chapter 28); public utility M&A (former Chapter 29), bankruptcy M&A (former Chapter 30); and joint ventures (former Chapter 31). Chapter 27 also briefly introduces issues in healthcare M&A.