Based in New York, the team at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is well-regarded for advising clients across a vast range of sectors including technology, energy and finance, on the tax aspects of corporate transactions. The firm’s international taxation portfolio includes mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and other divestitures, joint ventures, financings and financial instruments, and restructurings. Jodi Schwartz focuses her practice on cross-border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs and financial instruments, in a wide range of sectors, particularly technology. Deborah Paul advises on tax aspects of cross-border transactions, including strategic acquisitions and private equity buyouts in a wide array of industries. Eiko Stange routinely advises on cross-border transactions in a diverse spectrum of industries, including telecoms, tech, and pharma.
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Work highlights
- Represented T-Mobile US as it announced the establishment of a joint venture with KKR to acquire Metronet.
- Representing ConocoPhillips in its pending acquisition of Marathon Oil. The all-stock transaction, which ascribes an enterprise value of $22.5 billion to Marathon Oil.
- Representing Jacobs Solutions in a complex Reverse Morris Trust transaction to spin-off and combine its Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber & Intelligence businesses with Amentum, a privately held company. The RMT will create a new publicly-traded company
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Practice head
Jodi Schwartz
Other key lawyers
Deborah Paul; Eiko Stange