Key Tax Developments That Non-Tax Counsel Need To Know

Gregory (Greg) M. Weigand advises publicly traded companies, closely held businesses, private equity and venture capital funds, real estate funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, tender offers, financing transactions, real estate transactions, joint ventures, and entity formations. He also counsels international businesses that operate in the United States and those that expand their operations into the US, including on the acquisition and disposition of US-based businesses and other assets, such as real estate.

Greg is experienced in negotiating, drafting, and documenting transactions and advising on the tax aspects of equity purchase agreements; credit agreements; operating agreements; partnership agreements; offering memoranda; and registration statements, prospectuses, proxy statements, and other US Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

Greg frequently serves as a speaker on US and international tax issues and authors articles on various tax matters.

Melissa (Moszkowski) Price focuses her practice on domestic and international tax and estate planning matters. She advises clients on estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer and income tax issues, trust and estate administration, wealth transfer techniques and charitable planning.

Melissa has significant experience with international tax and estate planning. She advises trustees of foreign trusts with US beneficiaries, individuals moving to and from the US, and families with members residing in multiple jurisdictions. She regularly advises on US information reporting issues.

Prior to working at McDermott, Melissa worked in the corporate tax department at another large firm in New York.

Arianne R. Plasencia focuses her practice on US & international tax and estate planning matters. She provides international and US income, gift, and estate tax planning for entities and high-net-worth individuals.

Arianne works closely with multijurisdictional families and advises on inbound investment planning. As part of this work, she counsels individuals investing in the United States, trustees of trusts with US beneficiaries, individuals moving to and from the United States, and families with members residing in multiple jurisdictions. Arianne also establishes family offices, private trust companies and charitable giving vehicles. To help clients achieve their charitable goals, she creates split-interest trusts and nonprofit entities.

Arianne regularly advises clients and speaks on US tax and US information reporting issues, including the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and the Corporate Transparency Act.

While in law school, Arianne served as the managing editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.