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Tax for Joint Ventures/Strategic Alliances

Ken Snider spoke about Tax for Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances, a session at a two day course entitled, "Tax Essentials of Business Transactions."

Synopsis:

A creatively tax-planned joint venture deal will assist the partners in maximizing the after-tax returns of the arrangement. This discussion details structuring considerations when entering into joint ventures and strategic alliances, including international tax laws and treaties issues when the venture is cross-border.

• Domestic and cross-border tax structuring issues
• Capitalization and financing of the joint venture
• Tax risks in international operations
• Tax implications of the choice of joint venture entity: classification of the arrangement
• Strategies for minimizing income taxes
• Planning for profit distribution and repatriation
• Techniques for avoiding double taxation 

Ken is a partner in the Tax & Trusts Group. His practice focuses on corporate taxation, with an emphasis on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, inbound and outbound investments, and resource and real estate investments.