TAX LAW
Tax considerations are integral to virtually every business transaction. The Vandenberg & Feliu tax team can help businesses, individuals and tax exempt organizations with federal, state and local tax planning across a broad spectrum of matters.

General Business Tax Advice
We help clients select the most beneficial legal and tax form in which a new business should be organized. We are experienced in structuring and advising partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations to address client objectives. Our lawyers counsel businesses on tax matters affecting all aspects and phases of operations, including capital contributions, the admission or removal of a shareholder or partner, distributions, recapitalizations and reorganizations, redemptions, cancellation of indebtedness and liquidations.

Mergers and Acquisitions
In both cross-border and single-country deals, our attorneys are extensively involved in negotiating a diverse range of business transfers and restructurings in an ever-changing tax environment. Whether representing buyers or sellers, we put our analytical abilities to work to devise effective—yet practical—structures that minimize the tax cost to our clients.

Partnerships, Joint Ventures, and Investment Funds
Many of our clients seek to structure their investment and business activities through fiscally transparent vehicles that include partnerships, joint ventures and limited liability companies. Based on a thorough understanding of our clients’ needs, our attorneys create structures that address multiple tax and non-tax considerations. We help clients establish diverse business arrangements ranging from joint ventures between large corporate entities to start-up ventures among individuals, from complex real estate private and energy investment funds for taxable and tax-exempt investors to simple offshore master-feeder hedge funds.

Not-for-Profits
Our lawyers have assisted not-for-profit organizations, such as public charities and private foundations, in all stages and aspects of their operations, including their formation and the filing of exemption applications with the IRS. We regularly counsel tax exempt organizations with regard to unrelated business income and techniques to minimize taxes on such income.