Lowell Yoder presented “Subpart F and Foreign Tax Credit Changes – Planning Approaches” at TEI’s 68th Mid-Year Conference, including:

• Overview of key Subpart F and FTC Changes
• GILTI highlights
• Minimizing US taxes on CFC income
• Maximizing FTC utilization

What does tax reform, in all of its dimensions, mean for your company’s operations? How can you benefit from a digitized economy? And, what can you do to effectively compete for the next generation of professional talent? These questions were the focus of TEI’s 68th Midyear Conference, March 25-28, 2018. The program, led by a global cadre of world class practitioners, tax regulatory and policymakers is designed to inform, challenge, and inspire.

Partner Alysse McLoughlin spoke on “The Kitchen Sink: Unconventional Arguments in Defense of Assertions of Income Tax” at the 2018 ABA/IPT Advanced State Income, Sales/Use & Property Tax Seminars hosted in New Orleans on March 19-23, 2018.

More and more, taxpayers are facing states’ aggressive assertion of income tax, particularly as a result of adoption and application of economic nexus standards. Taxpayers face the need to defend against these new aggressions, but arguments that states’ economic nexus standards are unconstitutional have not been prevailing. Taxpayers need to be creative. This panel will not address economic nexus standards, but will instead discuss alternative means of disputing application of tax. The panel focused its attention, for example, to states’ doing business statutes as a defense to imposition of tax and addressed how treaties may be used as a weapon, and looked at how P.L. 86-272, and state analogies to 86-272, apply in the context of economic nexus. More broadly, they encouraged attendees to creatively consider what other arguments should be made (the kitchen sink) when defending against states’ new assertions of tax.

Read more about the 2018 ABA/IPT Advanced State Income, Sales/Use & Property Tax Seminars here.

Leigh-Alexandra Basha will present “Cross Border Couples” at the Annual International Tax Institute.

Partner Nicole Mann spoke at The Mourant Ozannes Guernsey Trusts Forum on March 22, 2018.

Experts from leading firms shared their insights on key topics in the trust and private client sector, including:

• Tax changes in the UK and US relevant to the International market
• Momentous decisions by trustees: navigating the minefield
• Settlor control in light of the Pugachev decision
• Dealing with fraud and asset tracing in the context of trusts
• Roundup of recent cases relevant to the private client
• Confidentiality in transparent age
• Marginal gains offshore? Trust and foundation law changes in Jersey, Guernsey and the Caribbean

Partner Nicholas Holland will be speaking on “Dealing with Fraud and Asset Tracing in the Context of Trusts” at the annual Mourant Ozannes Jersey Trust Forum.

Partner Leigh-Alexandra Basha spoke on ‘Cross Border Couples: From Prenups to Divorce (and Some Tax Issues Along the Way)’ at the 14^th Annual International Estate Planning Institute, an event co-sponsored by the New York State Bar Association and the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP).

The International Estate Planning Institute is a much anticipated annual event at which trust and estate practitioners, bankers and accountants from around the world gather to hear the leaders in their fields exchange ideas and discuss developments regarding cross-border planning with a US component.

Partner Arne Fuchs was invited to speak at the HKIAC Arbitration Clause Negotiation Workshop, discussing how to secure the best possible arbitration agreement, while bearing the business objectives in mind and making sure that corporate policy is followed?

Vernessa T. Pollard presented “Framework for FDA Regulation of Digital Health” at the AHLA webinar “An Update on FDA Regulation of Telemedicine” on March 21, 2018.

Join Velocity Global and McDermott Will & Emery for an in-depth webinar on navigating cross-border mergers and acquisitions. With these insights, you’ll learn how to manage employment challenges associated with M&A activities and implement new solutions that streamline the process.

Partner Maureen O’Brien will cover the challenges of providing compensation and benefits to employees in different companies and integrating a global workforce after a transaction, and partner Alexander Lee will provide a general overview of a typical cross-border transaction and discuss some of the major corporate and tax issues faced when handling an M&A transaction.

Partner Nicholas Holland will be speaking on “Dealing with Fraud and Asset Tracing in the Context of Trusts” at the annual Mourant Ozannes Guernsey Trust Forum.