Bill Cavanagh specializes in corporate, partnership, private equity and international tax matters. He advises a broad array of U.S. and multinational clients on a wide variety of U.S. and cross-border tax issues. In recent years, he has worked extensively with clients in structuring and negotiating and implementing significant domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, project finance transactions, securities offerings, private equity deals, financings and securitized loan transactions. He has also represented clients in numerous tax controversy disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and with various state and local tax authorities.
During the last several years, Mr. Cavanagh has lectured at numerous conferences and seminars and has written extensively on tax issues. Mr. Cavanagh has been a featured speaker at the prestigious New York University Institute on Federal Taxation for the past fifteen years, served as the 2013 Chair of the 72nd Annual Institute, the 2006 Chair of the 65th Annual Institute and the 1998 Chair of the 57th Annual Institute and is a member of the Institute's Board of Advisors. Mr. Cavanagh also chaired the 1995 International Bar Association program on "Negotiating Stock Purchase Agreements" (Paris, France) and the 1999 International Bar Association program on "Spin-offs and Split-ups" (Barcelona, Spain). Mr. Cavanagh's most recent papers and articles include:
- "Outbound Reorganizations and Profit Repatriation: Where's the Beef -- A Transactional Analysis," Tax Forum, May 2013
- "Tax and Tax-Related Provisions of U.S. Stock Purchase Agreements," Practicing Law Institute, November 2013
- "Hot Tax Topics: Selected Current Federal and State Tax Planning and Tax Litigation Issues," 72nd Annual New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, October 2013
- "Intangibles and Transfer Pricing -- Where the Action Is", Tax Executives Institute, Inc., April, 2011
- "Targeted Allocations Hit the Spot," Tax Notes, p. 89, October 4, 2010
- "World is Flat" Supply Chain Management: U.S. Tax Opportunities and Pitfalls in Earning (Shifting?) Taxable Profits Offshore: Selected Issues, Practicing Law Institute, October 2010
- "How Much U.S. Presence is Too Much for Foreign Corporations -- U.S. Tax Traps for the Unwary," Tax Executives Institute, Inc., December 2009
- "What Happens When Tax Mistakes are Made: Equity in the Tax Law," 65th Annual New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, October 2007
- "Substance, Form and Subchapter C: A Modest (Simplification) Proposal," Tax Forum, February 2006
- "Tax Issues for Troubled Corporations," New York University Graduate Tax Workshop, February 2005
- "There’s Gold in Them Thar’ Hills (And Some Fool’s Gold Too) - State Tax Planning Opportunities and Pitfalls," Tax Review, October 2001
Mr. Cavanagh is listed in the Euromoney Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisors. Mr. Cavanagh received his law degree from George Washington University and an LL.M. (Taxation) from the New York University School of Law. Mr. Cavanagh previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Arthur L. Nims, III, who is a Judge on the United States Tax Court. He is a member of the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.