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Akin Offices

111 LOUISIANA STREET, 44TH FLOOR
HOUSTON, TX 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Alison Chen

Work Department
Partner; Tax
Position
Alison Chen advises clients on the federal income tax aspects of business transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other partnership arrangements, recapitalizations, restructuring (in- and out-of-court) and other financing transactions, with a focus primarily in the energy sector. She also frequently serves as tax counsel in capital markets transactions, advising public companies (including MLPs) and underwriters in connection with initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on equity and debt offerings, public mergers and spin-offs.
To learn more about Ms. Chen, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/alison-l-chen.html
Memberships
Board of Directors, Asian American Bar Association of Houston; Member, Houston Bar Association Tax Section; Member, Texas Bar Association Tax Section; Member, State Bar of Texas Asian Pacific Interest Section
Education
BA, University of Texas at Austin; JD, University of Houston Law Center; LLM, New York University School of Law
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > 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
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > 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
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Industry focus > Sport
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)