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Larry Crouch
Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Larry Crouch is Team Leader of the Firm’s Tax practice and splits his time between the New York and Menlo Park offices.
Larry’s practice involves virtually every aspect of tax planning for domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and joint ventures. He has significant experience in merger and acquisition transactions, and in particular transactions involving private equity sellers and buyers. Larry also is Head of the REIT Affinity Group, and he works on renewable energy transactions representing sponsors, tax equity and lenders.
Larry represents private equity, sovereign, financial institution and corporate clients including Symphony Technology Group, Huntington Bancshares and Fairfax Financial Holdings.
Larry was previously Managing Partner for the firm’s Bay Area offices. He is a Silicon Valley native and spent more than three decades practicing law in California. He participates in transactions, and works with attorneys and clients, across the firm’s global platform.
Memberships
- New York
- California
Education
J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif
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- Graduated in top one percent of class
- Hastings Law Journal
B.A. with distinctions
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Shearman & Sterling LLP is noted for its representation of multinational companies in cross-border M&A and financial offerings, as well as private equity and sovereign wealth fund clients on formation and investment issues. Practice head Larry Crouch – who splits his time between New York and Menlo Park – is a seasoned transactional tax expert with experience in matters involving M&A, capital markets, and joint ventures. Crouch is also co-head of the firm’s REIT group, an area in which New York-based Derek Kershaw is also excels. Washington DC-based Jay Singer is praised for his strengths in spin-offs and internal restructurings, while in Dallas, Ryan Bray is a regular port of call for emerging growth companies and their founders on various tax-related issues. Also recommended is Todd Lowther in Houston, whose focus is on the taxation of natural resources and other transactions common in the petroleum sector. Recent team changes include New York-based Lorenz Haselberger‘s promotion to partnership in July 2022, and Michael Shulman‘s departure in October 2022.
United States > Tax > International tax
Shearman & Sterling LLP is well-regarded for its cross-border tax capabilities with advice provided to a variety of clients from local and global corporates to financial institutions. The team works with investment banking firms and other financial advisors to develop tax-efficient structures for financings, hybrid securities, acquisitions, joint ventures and other investments. Larry Crouch heads the tax team and has extensive transactional experience in matters involving international transactions, M&A, capital markets and joint ventures. Kristen Garry routinely advises on structured finance transactions while Jay Singer focuses on spin-off transactions. Lorenz Haselberger‘s client list includes banks, hedge funds, fintech companies and cryptocurrency custodians. All lawyers are based in New York.
United States > Tax > Financial products
The ‘top notch’ tax team at Shearman & Sterling LLP frequently advises clients on debt products including common stock issuances, revolving credit facilities, offerings under Rule 144A, convertible bonds and secured notes. The firm also has an emerging focus on cryptocurrency as a financial product and significant asset class, as well as boasting extensive experience advising investment banks and financial institutions in financial product development as well as underwriters, arrangers and issuers. The practice head is Larry Crouch, based in New York, who is supported by key names Kirsten Garry in Washington DC, and Lorenz Haselberger, also in New York. Garry focuses her practice on cross-border structured finance transactions, securitizations, M&A and capital markets offerings, as well as being a key name regarding financial products, including crypto. Haselberger, who was recently promoted, concentrates on taxation of financial instruments and institutions, as well as the tax components of M&A , inbound investments and restructurings. Michael Shulman left the firm in September 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
- Financial products United States > Tax
- International tax United States > Tax
- US taxes: non-contentious United States > Tax
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation