Showcasing high-end capabilities, the team at Mayer Brown provides advice concerning transfer pricing, with extensive experience handling transfer pricing structuring, and negotiating advance pricing agreements, whether those are unilateral, bilateral, or multilateral. With a client roster consisting of multinational companies and private equity clients, the team handles a range of sophisticated transactions, including cross-border mergers, capital market transactions, and fund formation. The team is led across multiple offices consisting of New York-based Jason Bazar , Brian Kittle , Lucas Giardelli , Chicago-based Thomas Kittle-Kamp, and Washington DC-based Jason Osborn . Bazar’s practice covers tax structuring related to cross-border investments within specialized areas such as technology and art, while Kittle and Kittle-Kamp handle a plethora of complex tax disputes. Giardelli has a longstanding reputation for handling tax issues concerning investment, sales, and acquisitions, while Osborn handles advance pricing agreements and is regarded as an authority in matters concerning transfer pricing. Based in the Washington DC office, Kenneth Klein continues to support multinational corporations across a variety of industries.
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‘The team demonstrates a profound commitment to their clients, consistently delivering results in an efficient manner.’
‘Service and customer minded: good combination of tax technical skill and practical solutions.’
‘Lucas Giardelli recommended for overall international tax structuring.’
‘A great spread of experts across international tax - always got just the right person to help us no matter the issue. Responsiveness is "off the charts" - whenever we need someone to help us quickly with an issue, Mayer Brown is the place we turn.’
‘Their advice is always practical and risk-adjusted - they don't just tell us what the law says but how it is applied and what the practical considerations are. Jason Bazar has incredible transactional experience and can always find his way through tricky issues.'
‘Generally very passionate and responsive. This includes being willing to take calls or answer questions at all hours, and coming back with quick answers.’
Key clients
- American Express Company
- Sotheby’s
- Altice
- ENGIE
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
- Abbott Labs
- American Axle & Manufacturing
- Keysight Technologies
- Eaton Corporation
- HSBC
Work highlights
- Advised Sotheby's on the tax and structuring aspects in connection with a $1 billion investment by ADQ.
- Advised broadband company Altice on the tax and structuring aspects in the sale of its video advertising platform Teads SA, to US ad company Outbrain Inc. in an approximately $1 billion transaction.
- Representing Abbott Labs in a U.S. Tax Court litigation case of first impression that involves a challenge to regulations issued under the global intangible low-taxed income provision of the TCJA.
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Practice head
Jason Bazar; Brian Kittle; Thomas Kittle-Kamp; Lucas Giardelli; Jason Osborn
Other key lawyers
Kenneth Klein