Diann Smith, Stephen Kranz and Eric Carstens were authors of a legal analysis, cited by this blog, regarding a Delaware district court’s potential landmark unclaimed property audit-related memorandum opinion in a case against the state.

Matthias Kampshoff, who is familiar with troubled company transactions, led McDermott’s work for Signa Retail (a unit of Austria’s Karstadt) to purchase insolvent online portal Dress-for-Less. Other McDermott lawyers on the deal were Marc Oberhardt, Ulrike Witt, Sandra Urban-Crell, Anja Zelfel, Claus Färber and Anna Steudner.

Matthias Kampshoff led a joint Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich team that advised Signa Retail throughout the process for its purchase of online portal Dress-for-Success out of bankruptcy. Other team members were Marc Oberhardt, Ulrike Witt, Sandra Urban-Crell, Anja Zelfel, Claus Färber and Anna Steudner.

M. Miller Baker, Stephen Kranz, and Diann Smith are among the counsel representing a group of oil companies in ongoing litigation with the District of Columbia over transfer pricing tax issues. A court of appeals vacated a summary judgment in favor of the companies and remanded the case back to the DC Office of Administrative hearings for further proceedings.

Diann Smith said that tax professionals who draft or amend tax legislation should use existing models, because this is “not a quick process, so it has to be something that you are willing to wait some time for, and … there will be different stakeholders that are going to be involved.” Stephen Kranz agreed that “having preamble or findings language does help flesh out the intent and purpose of legislation” since tax professionals “are keenly interested in substantive clarity and getting an answer that accurately reflects what the stakeholders were seeking to achieve.”

Matthias Kampshoff leads the McDermott Düsseldorf office team advising German auto supplier Kemmerich and its three related companies, which filed for bankruptcy in early June. Other team members focusing on insolvency and restructuring matters include Marc Oberhardt, Ulrike Witt and Philipp Kutscher. Read the full article.

Thomas Sauermilch, Brian Hoffmann, Elissa Port, Meir Lewittes, Diane Morgenthaler, Maureen O’Brien, Daphne Trotter, Raymond Jacobsen, Joel Grosberg, Andrea Hamilton and Daniel Zucker composed the multinational team that provided corporate, benefit, antitrust, regulatory and tax advice to German chemicals company Evonik Industries AG in purchasing Air Products and Chemicals Inc.’s performance materials division for $3.8 billion.