Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Tax

Mariya Khvatskaya advises on a broad range of federal, state and local tax issues. Mariya assists clients with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures and other strategic combinations; financings; and securitizations involving a variety of different asset classes. She works with private equity and hedge funds on acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies, and reviews and drafts opinions on the tax implications of real estate condominium plans for real estate clients. Mariya’s work on state and local tax matters includes both transactional deals and controversy cases involving sales tax, unincorporated business tax, corporate tax, personal income tax and transfer tax issues, among others. For foreign clients, she drafts, reviews and assists on tax disclosures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with passive foreign investment companies.