Experience:
Arthur Walker focuses his practice on corporate tax, tax planning, tax transactions, international taxation, tax controversies and tax policy. He advises on all tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of business, structuring and implementation of tax-free spin-offs, restructurings of group of companies; financial products, and LBO transactions for private equity institutions. He also advises in the preparation and handling of requests for private letter rulings before the IRS National Office.
Arthur advises US corporations in tax planning for foreign operations, he advises foreign corporations in tax planning for US operations and he advises US and foreign corporations in tax planning for restructuring of existing foreign and US corporate groups, spin-offs and acquisitions of foreign and domestic corporations. He also has significant experience with outbound investments, inbound investments, structuring/restructuring, joint ventures, controlled foreign corporations (subpart F), investments in US property, offshore intangibles, manufacturing, contract manufacturing, interest and other expense allocation and apportionment, withholding and treaty issues, transfer pricing, and international LBO transactions. Arthur also advises on tax legislative issues.
Arthur has been listed among Washington's Top 1% Lawyers in the Tax field in Washington, DC as published in Washingtonian Magazine, December 2007 and according to the Practical Law Company (PLC), he is a "well-regarded tax partner with a particular focus on the tax aspects of corporate transactions."
Education:
Georgetown University Law Center, JD, cum laude, 1996, Georgetown University Law Center, LLM, Taxation, with distinction, 1999, Georgetown University, BS, magna cum laude, 1993. |