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Proskauer Rose LLP advises on cross-border structuring issues such as withholding tax, permanent establishment risk, transfer pricing consideration, asset and business migrations, anti-deferral regimes, and tax treaty benefit. Team lead Amanda Nussbaum, who sits in the New York office, has significant expertise in structuring tax free and taxable mergers and acquisitions as well as taxation in the sports industry. Also located in New York, David Miller has considerable experience handling matters relating to the taxation of financial products, lending transactions, M&A, hedge funds, and HNWI, in both a domestic and international context whilst Martin Hamilton advises on cross-border investments and structured financing arrangements, and tax-efficient corporate financing techniques. In Los Angeles, Robert Friedman’s practice covers tax advice on public and private mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, private equity fund formation, financial products, and electric and gas utility tax issues. In Boston, Stephen Severo represents corporate, private equity and investment fund clients in connection with all tax-related aspects of their businesses. At the associate level, New York-based Kathleen Semanski and Washington DC-based Yomarie Habenicht, who both advise on a wide range of cross-border transactions, and Boston-based Philip Lenertz, who has particular strengths in the funds space, are notable team members.

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Key clients

  • abrdn Inc.
  • Adams Street Partners
  • Alexandria Real Estate Equities
  • AllianceBernstein
  • AnaCap Financial Partners
  • Apollo Global Management
  • Ares Management
  • Atalaya Capital
  • Blackstone Strategic Partners
  • BTG Pactual
  • DataBank / Digital Bridge Advisors
  • Diabolical Fun / Iron Galaxy Studios
  • Energy Impact Partners
  • Grifols
  • Hollyport Capital
  • Hoteles City Express, S.A.B. de C.V.
  • Investcorp
  • Jaime Gilinski
  • KKR
  • Pantheon Ventures
  • Patria Investments
  • StepStone Group
  • Temasek
  • The Women's Tennis Association (“The WTA”) and the ATP Tour (“ATP”)
  • 17Capital
  • 7Ridge

Work highlights

  • Advised the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) in a strategic partnership with CVC Capital Partners (CVC).
  • Advised Patria Investments in its definitive agreement to sell its portfolio company ODATA, a data center service provider offering scalable, reliable and flexible IT infrastructure in Latin America, to Aligned Data Centers.
  • Advised Hollyport Capital on the formation of its latest fund, Hollyport Secondary Opportunities Fund VIII2, which closed above its target of $1.5 billion.

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Leading partners

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Amanda Nussbaum

Amanda Nussbaum

Proskauer Rose LLP

Amanda H. Nussbaum is the chair of Proskauer's  Tax Department as well as a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Her practice concentrates on planning for and the structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, including venture capital, buyout, real estate and hedge funds, as well as advising those funds on investment activities and operational issues. She also represents many types of investors, including tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors, with their investments in private investment funds. Amanda has significant experience structuring taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and stock and debt offerings. She also counsels both sports teams and sports leagues with a broad range of tax issues. In addition, Amanda advises not-for-profit clients on matters such as applying for and maintaining exemption from federal income tax, minimizing unrelated business taxable income, structuring joint ventures and partnerships with taxable entities and using exempt and for-profit subsidiaries. Amanda has co-authored with Howard Lefkowitz and Steven Devaney the New York Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual, which is published by Data Trace Publishing Co.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Amanda Nussbaum

Other key lawyers

David Miller, Martin Hamilton, Robert Friedman, Stephen Severo, Kathleen Semanski, Yomarie Habenicht, Philip Lenertz