At Latham & Watkins, Stephen Bowen is called "an exceptional corporate tax lawyer" by a market observer, while tax controversy specialist Roger Jones (formerly with Mayer Brown) is said to be "terrific, very knowledgeable". In the last 12 months the ...
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At Latham & Watkins, Stephen Bowen is called "an exceptional corporate tax lawyer" by a market observer, while tax controversy specialist Roger Jones (formerly with Mayer Brown) is said to be "terrific, very knowledgeable". In the last 12 months the firm has been very busy, for example advising on the acquisition of Smith Investment Company, a multi-colour printing, commercial warehousing and packaging company, by AO Smith Corporation using a tax-free exchange and also representing the Kroger Company before the US Tax Court in the consolidated cases of Ralph's Grocery Company v Commissioner and Fred Meyer v Commissioner. These cases addressed the determination of the IRS that a transaction conducted in the Federated Stores bankruptcy and structured by the taxpayer as a qualified stock purchase defined in Internal Revenue Code section 338(d)(3), was in substance a reorganisation defined in code section 368(a), thereby disqualifying the election made by the taxpayer.
One client speaks highly of Bowen and Diana Doyle who "in addition to outstanding technical skills, know what it means to take their client's business personally and how to engage their client at a commercial level, they are always prepared to be creative and work with us to figure out what can be done".
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