This is a webcast of the live New York session.Why you should attend
This three-day program will focus on the tax issues presented by the entire spectrum of modern major corporate transactions, from relatively simple single-buyer acquisitions of a division or subsidiary to multi-party joint ventures, cross-border mergers, and complex acquisitions of public companies with domestic and foreign operations, including spin-offs and other dispositions of unwanted operations. Evolving techniques for structuring, financing, and refinancing corporate turnovers and other activities will be emphasized, with particular attention being paid to consolidated return issues, to financially troubled businesses, to the role of new financial products and the effects of the evolving economic substance and business purpose doctrine, and to selected current issues in mergers and acquisitions, including the effects of recent legislation on executive compensation.
What you will learn
Major Topics & Special Features Include:
- Tax accounting issues in mergers and acquisitions
- Section 338(h)(10) strategies
- Corporate tax strategies and techniques using partnerships and LLCs
- Strategies for private equity
- Structuring buyouts/venture capital deals
- Current issues in tax-free and partially tax-free acquisitive reorganizations
- Current issues in divisive strategies – spin-offs, split-offs and split-ups
- Recent strategies for financially troubled businesses and other loss companies
- “Cross-border” mergers and other international issues
- Interesting corporate transactions of the past year
- Issues and strategies in corporate financings and refinancings
- Exploring the limits of the evolving economic substance and business purpose doctrines
- Ethical and practice issues raised by recent tax shelter regulations and legislation and by Circular 230
- Consolidated return planning and strategies under the new regulations
PLI Group Discounts
Groups of 4-14 from the same organization, all registering at the same time, for a PLI program scheduled for presentation at the same site, are entitled to receive a group discount. For further discount information, please contact membership@pli.edu or call (800) 260-4PLI.
PLI Can Arrange Group Viewing to Your Firm
Contact the Groupcasts Department via email at groupcasts@pli.edu for more details.
Cancellations
All cancellations received 3 business days prior to the program will be refunded 100%. If you do not cancel within the allotted time period, payment is due in full. You may substitute another individual to attend the program at any time.
Chairperson(s)
Speaker(s)
Erik H. Corwin ~ Deputy Chief Counsel (Technical), Internal Revenue Service
William S. Dixon ~ Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Stephen P. Fattman ~ Special Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate), Internal Revenue Service
Helen M. Hubbard(Invited) ~ Acting Associate Chief Counsel (Financial Institutions & Products), Internal Revenue Service, Room 3547
Tal Kaissar ~ Vice President & Director of Taxes, American International Group, Inc.
Kenneth E. Kempson ~ Senior Tax Counsel - Director of Tax Examination, General Electric Company
John J. Merrick ~ Special Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel (International), Internal Revenue Service
Scott Naatjes ~ Vice President, Tax and Customs, General Tax Counsel, Cargill, Incorporated
Lewis R. Steinberg ~ Managing Director, Head of Strategic Advisory (Investment Banking Department), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Mark Weiss ~ Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel (Branch 6), Internal Revenue Service
Isaac W. Zimbalist ~ Senior Technician Reviewer (Corporate Branch 5), Internal Revenue Service
Program Attorney(s)
PLI makes every effort to accredit its Live Webcasts. Please check the CLE Calculator above for CLE information specific to your state.
PLI's Live Webcasts are approved for MCLE credit (
unless otherwise noted in the product description) in the following states/territories: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho*, Illinois, Indiana
1, Iowa*, Kansas*, Kentucky*, Louisiana, Maine*, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire*, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York
2, Ohio
3, Oklahoma, Oregon*, Pennsylvania
4, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia
5, Virgin Islands, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming*.
*PLI will apply for credit upon request.
Arizona: The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement.
Arkansas and Oklahoma: Audio-only live webcasts are not approved for credit.
1Indiana: Considered a distance education course. There is a 6 credit limit per year.
2New York: Newly admitted attorneys may not take non-transitional course formats such as on-demand audio or video programs or live webcasts for CLE credit. Newly admitted attorneys not practicing law in the United States, however, may earn 12 transitional credits in non-traditional formats.
3Ohio: To confirm that the live webcast has been approved, please refer to the list of Ohio’s Approved Self Study Activities at http://www.sconet.state.oh.us. Online programs are considered self-study. Ohio attorneys have a 6 credit self-study limit per biennial compliance period. The Ohio CLE Board states that attorneys must have a 100% success rate in clicking on timestamps to receive ANY CLE credit for an online program.
4 Pennsylvania: A live webcast may be viewed individually or in a group setting. Credit may be granted to an attorney who views a live webcast individually. There is a 4.0 credit limit per year for this type of viewing. A live webcast viewed in a group setting receives live participatory credit if the program is open to the public and advertised at least 30 days prior to the program. Live webcasts viewed in a group setting that do not advertise at least 30 days prior the program will be considered "in-house", and therefore denied credit.
5Virginia: All distance learning courses are to be done in an educational setting, free from distractions.
Running time and CLE credit hours are not necessarily the same. Please be aware that many states do not permit credit for luncheon and keynote speakers.
Note that some states limit the number of credit hours attorneys may claim for online CLE activities, and state rules vary with regard to whether online CLE activities qualify for participatory or self-study credits. For more information, refer to your state CLE website or call Customer Service at (800) 260-4PLI (4754) or email: info@pli.edu.
If you have already received credit for attending some or the entire program, please be aware that state administrators do not permit you to accrue additional credit for repeat viewing even if an additional credit certificate is subsequently issued.