6-Hour Program

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Overview

Why you should attend

With implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act well underway, and judicial and administrative scrutiny remaining at a high level, it is important to stay on top of the latest developments in the fast changing area of financial products and transactions. At this program, an outstanding group of law firm and accounting firm lawyers, in-house tax advisors, and government speakers will explore new topics in financial transactions and examine new angles on some of the familiar ones.

What you will learn

  • Explore the ways in which the IRS’s Large Business and International Division (LB&I) has stepped up to provide its own brand of informal tax guidance
  • Identify the key tax issues clients will face under Dodd-Frank (including but not limited to issues arising under section 1256)
  • Hear the latest theories on which strategies to reduce dividend withholding taxes will survive the enactment of section 871(m)
  • Examine whether the contingent capital transactions used in Europe can produce Tier One capital with deductible payments in the United States
  • Analyze the latest happenings in the increasingly important world of  regulated investment companies (RICs)
  • Learn techniques for dealing with different financial transactions that have the same economic results but produce different tax consequences

Who should attend

Attorneys at law and accounting firms who advise clients on financial transactions and products; in-house tax professionals who help structure transactions and make FIN 48 determinations; hedge fund traders who want a better understanding of the tax rules governing financial products and transactions; accountants who work in the area of financial products; and government attorneys who want to stay on top of what’s happening outside the government.

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