Robert Holo > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP advises Fortune 100 companies, investment firms and financial institutions on a broad range of transactions, including public company M&A, private equity deals for alternative asset managers, SPAC and whole-business securitization transactions, transformational IPOs, and out-of-court and in-court restructuring transactions. The practice is co-headed by Jeffrey Samuels, Brad Okun, Scott Sontag, and Lindsay Parks. Samuels has significant experience advising on tax aspects of public and private M&A, spin-offs, the organization of and structuring of transactions for investment funds, and partnership and joint venture transactions. Okun focuses his practice on the tax law aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and corporate finance and has experience advising limited liability companies and partnerships, as well as cross-border investing. Sontag regularly structures and negotiates complex merger and acquisition and restructuring transactions for public companies and private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Parks routinely supports investment funds and strategic clients in the negotiation and structuring of a broad range of international and domestic transactions. Robert Holo and Matthew Jordan both advise on federal tax law aspects of domestic and international transactions, including all types of mergers, acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations and spin-offs; cross-border tax matters; joint ventures; and capital markets and financing transactions. Brian Grieve has extensive experience advising alternative asset managers on tax matters related to the formation and operation of both US. and non-US investment funds, including private equity funds, credit funds, hybrid capital/special situations funds, real estate funds, and infrastructure funds, and the structuring of all types of investments by those funds. Robert Killip advises clients on US tax aspects of complex cross-border transactions, internal restructurings, tax-free reorganizations, spin-offs and bankruptcy and insolvency restructurings. The team sits in the New York office.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP’s New York-based transactional tax practice regularly advises major clients, including Fortune 500 companies, investment firms, and financial institutions, on major M&A and private equity deals, SPAC and securitization transactions, IPOs, and restructurings, among other matters. The team continues to advise industrial giant General Electric in relation to its reorganization by way of several spin-offs into three separate public companies operating in the aviation, healthcare and energy sectors. Jeffrey Samuels advises on a broad range of matters, including public and private M&A, spin-offs, investment fund structuring, and partnership and joint venture transactions. Brad Okun focuses on the tax aspects of M&A deals, restructurings, and corporate finance transactions. Scott Sontag’s broad client base includes public companies, private equity funds, and REITs, while Lindsay Parks advises investment funds and strategic clients in relation to joint ventures, carve-outs, restructurings, fund formation, and complex debt and equity offerings, among other issues. The four partners jointly chair the group, within which federal tax experts Robert Holo, who recently led a team advising cosmetics multinational Estée Lauder in relation to its $2.8 billion acquisition of luxury brand TOM FORD, and Matthew Jordan, who has experience advising private equity giants Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, and Roark Capital Partners, play a key role.