International Tax

 

Domestic and foreign clients regularly retain Steptoe for tax-efficient structuring of their cross-border transactions and operations, as well as international tax advocacy before Congress, the Treasury Department, the IRS, the courts, as well as foreign tax authorities.  Our successes in these areas are achieved by leading lawyers with decades of practical experience and a strong commitment to solving our clients’ problems with practical judgment, technical skill, professionalism, and integrity.

Steptoe lawyers assist clients in the planning and the implementation of transactions, alert to the possibility that an audit or controversy may ensue.  Our substantial tax litigation experience enables us to anticipate how issues may be presented in the controversies and to plan accordingly.  Decisions made at the pre-controversy stage about substantive strategies, procedural tactics, and privilege questions may have a dramatic impact in later adversary proceedings.

Representative Practice Areas

We have produced superb results in hundreds of matters for our clients in the following practice areas:

• Audit, Appeals, and Tax Litigation
• Competent Authority and Other Treaty Matters
• Compliance and Withholding Tax
• Criminal Tax
• Expert Witness Depositions and Testimony
• Governments and Multilateral Organizations
• High-Net-Worth Individuals
• Investment Fund, Private Equity and Joint Ventures
• Legislative and Regulatory Advocacy
• Operational Structuring & Restructuring
• Strategic Transactions
• Tax Planning and Structuring
• Transfer Pricing

Noteworthy

• Ranked, Chambers Global 2013, Tax: Corporate & Finance: USA
• Ranked, Chambers USA 2012, Tax: Corporate & Finance: Nationwide
• Ranked, Chambers USA 2012, Tax: Controversy: Nationwide
• Named, "Best Law Firms," US News and Best Lawyers 2013, Litigation-Tax: Nationwide
• Named, "Best Law Firms," US News and Best Lawyers 2013, Tax Law: Nationwide
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Tax: Controversy
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Tax: Corporate & Finance
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Tax: International
• Recognized, Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers 2012
• Recognized, Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers 2011
• Recommended, International Tax Review "World Tax 2009,” International Tax
• Practice chair, Philip R. West served as the US Department of the Treasury’s International Tax Counsel, the highest ranking international tax official in the US government

Select News & Events

• Steptoe Receives 25 Practice, 32 Individual Mentions in Chambers Global 2013
• Reuters Quotes Phil West on US-China Anti-Tax Evasion Deal
• Worldwide Tax Daily Quotes Philip Woolfson on Lack of EU Harmonization
• Steptoe Receives 17 Practice, 47 Individual Mentions in Legal 500 US 2012
• "Interest Deductibility--Current State of Play and Direction of Travel,"2nd IBA CIOT Conference on Current International Tax Issues in Cross-Border Corporate Finance and Capital Markets in London
• The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and Qualified Intermediaries
• "The Future Direction of Global Tax Administration: Challenges and Change," Tax Executives Institute
• Chairs 24th Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Taxation

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Publications

• Alexis Lautenberg Authors Op-Ed on Exchange of Tax Information
  May 18, 2013, Finanz und Wirtschaft
• Basics of US Tax-Free Spin-Offs Under Section 355
  November 2011, International Taxation
• Racing to a Locked Door? SEC Issues Final Whistleblower Bounty Rule and Announces First Deferred Prosecution Agreement, Revealing Competing Incentives for Corporate Self Reporting
  June 7, 2011
• BAE Systems Settles Civil Charges of ITAR Violations for $79 Million
  May 24, 2011

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