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Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg offers comprehensive and timely Canadian and US tax advice on a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions and business vehicles, including mergers, acquisitions, reorganisations, workouts, infrastructure development, ... [more]

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg offers comprehensive and timely Canadian and US tax advice on a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions and business vehicles, including mergers, acquisitions, reorganisations, workouts, infrastructure development, financings, derivative transactions, joint ventures, investment funds and business trusts. In the past 12 months the firm has represented carmakers Fiat during Chrysler's restructuring after entering US bankruptcy (chapter 11) protection. The firm also advised US bank GMAC as it completed its $28.815 billion outstanding notes exchange and purchase offers, and its separate offers to exchange and purchase $9.331 billion outstanding notes of Residential Capital. The purpose of the offers was to increase GMAC's capital levels and reduce GMAC and Residental Capital's outstanding debt in connection with GMAC's capital plan and its application to become a bank holding company. The firm has no major presence on the West Coast. Ian Crosbie and John Ulmer are both recommended for expertise in cross-border tax matters. Siobhan Monaghan is individually recognised and Nathan Boidman is called "a perpetual motion machine," by a competitor.

The New York office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg is a small outpost of the leading Canadian firm, but with a strong reputation. Peter Glicklich is very highly regarded by peers in the market. He and the tax team in New York advise clients from ... [more]

The New York office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg is a small outpost of the leading Canadian firm, but with a strong reputation. Peter Glicklich is very highly regarded by peers in the market. He and the tax team in New York advise clients from a broad range of industries, from hospitality to real estate and capital markets. In the troubled economy the firm is well aware that clients need responsive advisers and caters to this well. A thrilled client describes the group as "very service oriented. Prompt, timely [and they] always make themselves available. A pleasure to deal with".