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Tax

Eversheds Sutherland are experts in tackling complex tax environments with their high class expertise.

Our highly experienced tax lawyers will advise you on every aspect of tax law, including international, federal, state and local tax law.

Understanding taxes is one of the principal considerations of any business. As a result, you need a law firm that can provide a full understanding of your  company tax position and where possible, ways to improve it.

Our Tax practices advise on complex and challenging tax matters for the world’s largest businesses. We pride ourselves on offering customized solutions that consider all aspects of business currently as well as its evolving priorities and plans. Our lawyers will chart a way through the maze of national and sub-national tax laws and provide you with integrated tax advice for today's multi-jurisdictional business environment.

We are active in every area of taxation, from structuring complex transactions, advising on insurance and financial products, and providing comprehensive support for tax audits and controversy. Our focus is on helping companies to achieve their objectives in a tax-efficient manner and providing them with the highest standard of representation in administrative as well as legal proceedings.

We provide counsel to many of the world's most prominent corporations – nearly a third of the Fortune 100. We have more than 160 tax attorneys in over 20 countries, representing taxpayers across the globe.

Our tax attorneys are recognized for their skills and acumen. Our team also includes attorneys who have held positions at the IRS, the Treasury Department, and the Tax Division of the Justice Department, and served as leaders in the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation, the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council, the American College of Tax Counsel, the International Fiscal Association and the Council On State Taxation.

Our lawyers are experienced in all aspects of tax law, from structuring complex transactions, advising on insurance and financial products, and providing comprehensive support for tax audits and controversy. Our experience includes:

  • representing an international insurance company in a refund suit that it filed for its 1997 tax year, seeking the return of approximately $306 million in tax, penalties and interest. The case involves a number of issues, including whether the company is entitled to certain foreign tax credits that it claimed in various cross-border financing transactions
  • winning a retail client's $150 million tax dispute with the IRS over cross-border financing transactions. The government conceded that there was no tax liability
  • addressing a range of complex structural, transactional and multi-jurisdictional tax issues relating to the acquisition, intra-group structuring, development and funding for an investment management firm on their £230m cross-border acquisition and development financing of a residential regeneration real estate site by an investment management fund and a range of other real estate and debt funds and their specialist advisers over a 14 month period
  • advising a British aero-engine manufacturing business on the strategic sale of its Norwegian maritime engine business. The team advised on tax aspects of the pre-sale structure, the tax consequences of the sale and the tax aspects of the transaction documents, including tax covenants and tax warranties 
  • advising a global solar Independent Power Producer (IPP) on a renewable energy joint venture with an investment vehicle dedicated to green infrastructures on a complex, multi-jurisdictional project. We designed the JV structure and the key tax considerations, as well as the documentation governing the sale