Transaction Tax Every transaction has tax implications, whether it’s an acquisition, disposal, refinancing, restructuring or initial public offering. Understanding and planning for these implications can mitigate transaction risk, enhance opportunity and provide crucial negotiation insights. Our Transaction Tax Services comprise a worldwide network of professional advisors who can help you do just that. By combining diverse cross-border transaction experience with Lithuanian tax knowledge across a broad spectrum of industry sectors, we can help you make informed decisions and navigate the tax implications of your transaction. Because every deal has a distinct profile, we mobilize wherever needed, assembling a personalized, integrated global team to work with you throughout the transaction life cycle, from initial due diligence through post-deal implementation. Our local teams employ a consistent approach globally to provide you with a coordinated understanding of the relevant jurisdictional and multidisciplinary tax issues. And we can suggest structuring alternatives to balance investor sensitivities, promote exit readiness and help improve prospective earnings or cash flows – raising opportunities for improved returns on your investment. Our integrated approach means you gain access to high-quality, globally coordinated tax advice, wherever your transaction occurs. Our services include: - Bankruptcy Resturcturing
Tax reviews and assistance to help a client that is preparing for or already undergoing formal, court-administered bankruptcy proceedings to quickly restructure its affairs to release cash and reduce taxes and other operational costs including realignment and rationalization of organizational entities and refinancings or exchanges of stock and debt at more favorable terms.
| - Corporate Deal Advisory, Domestic
A wide range of buy-side tax advisory services relevant to a corporation acquiring a company or business in a manner involving only one country’s taxing jurisdiction that include tax due diligence services, advice on alternative acquisition structures, assistance in reviewing tax-relevant parts of the transaction documentation, suggestions of draft wording for tax-specific clauses of the transaction documentation, attendance at negotiations to contribute to the advancement/resolution of discussions and/or to advise or consult the client on negotiation strategies, transaction costs analyses on the corporate income tax and VAT treatment of costs incurred in connection with the acquisition of a target company or business.
| - Corporate Deal Advisory, Cross Border
Buy-side tax advisory services relevant to a corporation acquiring a company or business in a manner that involves two or more countries’ taxing jurisdictions that include tax due diligence services, advice on alternative acquisition structures, assistance in reviewing tax-relevant parts of the transaction documentation, suggestions of draft wording for tax-specific clauses of the transaction documentation, attendance at negotiations to contribute to the advancement/resolution of discussions and/or to advise or consult the client on negotiation strategies, transaction costs analyses on the corporate income tax and VAT treatment of costs incurred in connection with the acquisition of a target company or business.
| - Non-Bankruptcy Restucturing (advice to creditors or to distressed company)
Tax reviews and refreshed planning of debtor’s existing corporate and financing structures and tax models to release cash and reduce taxes and other operational costs in debtors which are already in distress but not undergoing or imminently facing formal bankruptcy proceedings.
| - Sell Side Services
Sell side reviews of a company’s tax position, advice on alternative structures to dispose of unwanted assets or to exit from a business or company, assistance in reviewing tax-relevant parts of the transaction documentation, suggestions of draft wording for tax-specific clauses of the transaction documentation, attendance at negotiations to contribute to the advancement/resolution of discussions and/or to advise or consult the client on negotiation strategies, funds flow models reflecting the flow of funds on completion of a transaction in accordance with the proposed structure, transaction costs analyses or assistance in minimizing the VAT treatment of costs incurred in connection with the disposition.
| - Tax Refinancing Services
Tax advice related to the extraction of cash from private equity investments through debt or equity exchanges, buy-backs of debt or equity, the raising of additional debt or equity financing, or other refinancing.
| - Vendor Due Dilligence
A sell side tax due diligence carried out at the request and expense of a company that is preparing to offer its company or a component business for sale, where a report is prepared for use by prospective buyers and the ultimate purchaser addressing questions and issues which potential purchasers would want to understand, tax Vendor Due Dilligence is intended to give an advance and independent assessment of the tax position of the target. Vendor Due Dilligence services may include review of the tax assumptions contained in the seller’s (or target’s) financial and/or tax model.
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