With experience in every area of national and international transactions and planning for companies and individual taxpayers, our lawyers constantly strive to help our clients achieve maximum tax efficiencies.

We offer clients the following benefits:

• Topical tax advice in mergers and acquisitions, multinational restructurings, real estate, securitization, and investment management.
  
  
• Minimization of federal and foreign taxes.
  
  
• A battle-tested federal tax contest practice at the various administrative and judicial levels that emphasizes aggressive, efficient strategies designed to get the most economic result for our clients.
  
  
• Up-to-date ERISA planning strategies that meet the needs of clients in this ever-changing area.
  
  
• Experience in negotiating and executing high-level executive compensation agreements and stock-based plans with the requisite skills in the disciplines of tax, securities, and accounting.
  
  
• Personal tax strategies as well as estate and trust planning and administration services.
  
  
• Sophisticated planning for virtually every type of tax-exempt organization ranging from private foundations to large public nonprofit entities.
  
  
• Practical advice in value added tax (VAT) work from leaders in the field. We are particularly active in VAT recovery in the financial services sector as well as VAT matters related to property and property development.
  
  
• Valuable insight into customs and excise law from leaders in the field. Our London office is consistently ranked first among firms in this area by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
  
  

For more information about Dechert's tax practice, contact U.S. tax chair Edward Lemanowicz at +1.215.994.2492 or U.K. tax chair Mark Stapleton at +44.20.7184.7591.