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Akin Offices
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Joshua Williams
Work Department
Partner, Tax
Position
Joshua R. Williams advises clients in various industries on domestic and international tax matters. He focuses primarily on the organization, structuring and operation of private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, secondary funds, distressed debt funds, funds of funds and hedge funds. He has extensive experience advising credit funds on structuring inbound U.S. investments, including with respect to loan origination activities.
Joshua has substantial transactional experience in the real estate area. He regularly counsels real estate funds and other market participants on a wide array of domestic and international tax issues presented by investments in real estate, including issues raised under the real estate investment trust (REIT) rules and the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA) regime.
Joshua also advises creditors of bankrupt and financially troubled companies on a variety of issues, including the restructuring of debt, preservation of tax attributes and issues arising under the consolidated return regime. Additionally, he is experienced in structuring tax-driven vehicles, such as sale-leasebacks, flip partnerships, inverted leases and other structures for the acquisition and financing of renewable energy assets.
To learn more about Joshua, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/joshua-r-williams
Memberships
Member of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and of the Managed Funds Association
Education
LL.M., New York University School of Law, 2003; J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law, cum laude, 2002; B.S., University of South Carolina, summa cum laude, 1999
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Akin’s transactional tax practice has a strong reputation for its financial products and fund formation expertise, particularly in the private equity and hedge fund spaces. The team also regularly handles high-value M&A, restructurings, and financings, among other matters, recently advising major players in several key sectors, such as OpenAI, Apollo Global Management, and an ownership consortium. Patrick Fenn, focusing on the tax aspects of alternative investment vehicles, M&A, and financial restructurings, leads the group alongside investment funds specialist Stuart Leblang. Joshua Williams also focuses on the private investment funds sector, while Olivier De Moor regularly represents investment funds and their investors in connection with federal tax and tax treaty aspects of cross-border transactions. Alexander Specht concentrates on the federal tax issues arising in domestic and cross-border financial transactions, M&A deals, joint ventures, and partnerships. The tax team in Texas plays a key role in the firm’s energy offering, with Alison Chen in Houston advising major clients, including MLPs, operating in that sector. All lawyers mentioned are based in New York unless otherwise stated.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism