Diana Hund led the McDermott corporate, regulatory, tax, data privacy and IP team that advised online travel booking firm MisterFly on its acquisition of BazarChic Voyages (operating as Idiliz). The Paris office team included Marie-Muriel Barthelet, Anne Febvre,Laurent Ayache, Camille Spegt, Antoine Vergnat,Côme de Saint-Vincent, Thibault Stumm, Romain Perray,Julie Uzan-Naulin, Laura Morelli,Charles de Raignac and Sarah Candelibes.

Diana Hund, Marie-Muriel Barthelet, Anne Febvre, Laurent Ayache, Camille Spegt, Antoine Vergnat, Côme de Saint-Vincent, Thibault Stumm, Romain Perray, Julie Uzan-Naulin, Laura Morelli, Charles de Raignac and Sarah Candelibes advised an online flight booking specialist on its acquisition of an online tour operator.

Diana Hund, Marie-Muriel Barthelet, Anne Febvre, Laurent Ayache, Camille Spegt, Antoine Vergnat, Côme de Saint-Vincent, Thibault Stumm, Romain Perray, Julie Uzan-Naulin, Laura Morelli, Charles de Raignac and Sarah Candelibes advised an online flight booking specialist on its acquisition of an online tour operator.

Stephen Kranz, Diann Smith and Alysse McLoughlin were cited as authors for this bylined article on guidance from the Illinois Department of Revenue concerning its treatment of the new deemed repatriated foreign earnings provisions found in Internal Revenue Code Section 965, enacted in the recent federal tax bill (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

Stephen Kranz, Alysse McLoughlin, Diann Smith and Kathleen Quinn wrote a March 2018 client alert, cited in this article, analyzing how a planned New York State decoupling from the new federal tax law’s global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) provisions would mean that any amount included in the federal tax base under the repatriation transition provisions would be excluded from the state taxable income base, even if the amounts were received from a non-unitary subsidiary.

Catherine Battin, Diann Smith and Alysse McLoughlin spoke March 15 at the Chicago office to a group of women tax professionals. Ms. Battin said about the new tax law that policy has “been decided at the federal level—the tax base rules—and now all the action moves to the state folks,” citing eight states with new models or guidance. Ms. Smith added that state revenue agencies “really need to go back and look at the instructions for their returns” to conform with new federal law

IanSchwartz, EvanBelosa and Alejandro Ruiz were speakers at a recent program hosted by partners in a major international recruiting firm. The lawyers discussed the latest trends in compensation for private equity firm investment professionals.

Nearly 20 McDermott M&A, tax, health, IP and trial lawyers were listed as counsel to CVS Health in its $77 billion acquisition of Aetna. They include Jeremy Earl, Ankur Goel, Edward Gordon, Daniel Gottlieb, Ankur Gupta, John Kocoras, Joanne Ludovici, Kate McDonald, Joan Polacheck, Barry Quirke, Timothy Shuman, Diann Smith, Justin Uhlemann, Judith Wethall, Michael Wilder, Lowell Yoder and Margaret Cremin.

Stephen Kranz and Diann Smith discussed in this video how determining financial statement impact from the state flow-through of federal tax reform will be complicated by expected changes in state tax policy. Both lawyers noted McDermott’s work with the new STAR Partnership, a coalition focused on taxpayer input to state tax changes made necessary by the new federal tax law.