Joseph Soltis > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Joseph Soltis
Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Joe is a tax partner based in our New York office. Joe represents clients across multiple industries on US and international tax-related aspects of transactional deals, including domestic and cross-border taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, financing arrangements, investments, partnerships and joint ventures, bankruptcy reorganizations, securities issuances, and real estate matters.
Education
- LLM, Taxation, New York University Law School
- JD, New York University Law School
- BA, Political Sciences, New York University College of Arts and Science
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s offers considerable non-contentious tax expertise to major clients in the tech, pharma, energy, and financial services sectors, among others. Practice head Claude Stansbury in Washington DC advises domestic and international companies, private equity funds, and financial advisors on acquisitions, financings, restructurings, and disposals. He also has notable experience representing financial institutions and multinationals in relation to the taxation of derivatives and other financial products. Joseph Soltis in New York advises several Fortune 500 companies on taxable and tax-free M&A, recapitalizations, financings, investments, reorganizations, and securities issuances. Dennis Caracristi, also in New York, advises banking groups, underwriters, companies, private equity and hedge funds, and sovereign wealth investors on a broad range of issues, including stock offerings, spin-offs, derivatives, and securitizations. Robert Scarborough left the firm in 2023 for a role at the Internal Revenue Service.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Tax > Financial products
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- International trade > CFIUS
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism