Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s tax team has expertise across the full range of transactional tax matters. The team covers an impressive range of sectors, including aerospace, financial institutions, life sciences, and manufacturing. It prominently handles high-value REIT matters and the development of tax issues relating to private capital in the sports, media, and entertainment industries. San Francisco-based Josh Scala heads the firm’s tax practice. He leverages extensive expertise in REITs, both public and private, with respect to the tax aspects of real estate joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, vehicle structuring, and debt and equity financings. Jasper Howard, based in Washington DC, frequently advises clients on tax-efficient spin-offs and the restructuring of multinational corporations. Jeffrey Ufner, based in New York, represents prominent funds across transactional matters, notably take-private acquisitions. Steven Schneider, in Washington, DC, and Jessica Millett, in New York, are other key names with strengths in transactional tax mandates. Jay Singer joined the DC team in December 2024. Following the successful merger with Cadwalader, leading partner Linda Swartz joins the ranks, along with rising talent William Walsh.
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‘Hogan Tax are great legal tax advisors. They are very responsive, proactive and always deliver. I enjoy working with the team!’
‘Jasper, Stephen and Jessica are a great team. Whenever I work with them I know that our transaction will be successful. They are responsive, proactive and deliver what we need when we need it.’
Key clients
- Advance Auto Parts
- Boundary Street Capital
- Elme Communities
- Tom Gores
- IBM
- JPMorgan Asset Management
- Levine Leichtman Family Office
- Lockheed Martin
- The Morgan Family
- PPG Industries
- Public Storage
- Redwire Corporation
Work highlights
Advised Public Storage, a leader in the self-storage space industry, on its US$2 billion at-the-market equity offering program.
Advised Elme Communities, a value-oriented multifamily REIT, in connection with its US$1.6 billion sale of a 19-property portfolio across the Greater Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia metro areas to an affiliate of Cortland Partners and approval of a plan of sale and liquidation.
Advised Advance Auto Parts on the US$1.5 billion sale of Worldpac Inc., an automotive parts wholesale distribution business, to private equity firm Carlyle.
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Practice head
Josh Scala; Linda Z. Swartz
Other key lawyers
Cristina Arumi; Jasper Howard; Nicola Lemay; Scott Lilienthal; Jessica Millett; Siobhan Rausch; Steven Schneider; Jeffrey Uffner; William Walsh