Expertise
Tax
Our Tax Group helps clients identify, maximize and realize opportunities, solve problems, and achieve lasting results through creative and practical tax strategies. From cross-border transactions, complex real estate development ventures, corporate transactions and restructurings, and advising entrepreneurs and startups, to personal planning and ensuring family philanthropic legacies, we partner with clients across industries and geographies to optimize after-tax returns and realize long-term business and personal goals.
Multinational companies, investment funds, family offices, tax-exempt organizations, and entrepreneurs rely on us to navigate the full spectrum of domestic and cross-border tax issues. We bring technical skill and sound judgment to every matter—structuring corporate and real estate transactions, guiding individual and family wealth planning, and resolving disputes with taxing authorities. We also help clients capture the benefits of tax credit programs and Qualified Opportunity Zones, often working at the forefront of evolving incentive programs.
Our team translates complex tax concepts into implementable strategies that advance clients’ broader goals, always with a focus on efficiency and sustainability. We advise on mergers and acquisitions, private investment funds, restructurings, joint ventures, and tax-exempt organizations. When challenges arise, we advocate in audits, appeals, and litigation. Clients value our close coordination with their accountants, financial advisors, and other professionals, as well as our seamless collaboration with our Corporate, Real Estate, Bankruptcy, and Private Client & Trust colleagues.
Our breadth and depth set us apart.
- Real Estate Tax: Structuring complex joint ventures, acquisitions, financings, and dispositions for developers, REITs, and investors, as well as tax-efficient exit strategies such as 1031 like-kind exchanges.
- Corporate Tax & Closely Held Businesses: Tax structuring and implementation of high-value and strategic transactions, including succession planning for corporations, entrepreneurs, family enterprises, and closely held businesses.
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures: Structuring domestic and cross-border M&A deals, tax-efficient reorganizations, integration transactions, recapitalizations and internal restructurings.
- Tax-Exempts & Nonprofits: Advising charities, foundations, and institutions on tax-exempt status, governance, unrelated business income tax, joint ventures and operational matters.
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation: Advising on ERISA compliance, deferred compensation, and equity-based incentive structures, with attention to tax, reporting, and regulatory requirements.
- International Tax: Advising on inbound and outbound transactions, cross-border investments, and treaty matters.
- Individual & Family Planning: Designing tailored strategies for entrepreneurs, executives, and families to preserve wealth across generations and achieve their philanthropic goals.
- Incentives: Helping clients maximize investment tax credits, affordable low-income housing tax credits, and Opportunity Zone benefits.
- Tax Controversy: Representing clients in audits, appeals, and litigation, with a strong record of negotiated resolutions.
Our ranks include attorneys with advanced tax degrees, former in-house advisors, and professionals with accounting and fiduciary backgrounds. Clients benefit from sophisticated modeling, creative structuring, and advice informed by both technical expertise and a deep understanding of their businesses.
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Martha J. Nahill Frahm
Director, Boston
mfrahm@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 4063
Abraham Leitner
Director, New York
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