"Commercial and reasonable. She does a good job of balancing the commercial objective with a tax perspective."
Chambers USA 2024
"A remarkable lawyer. She is smart and talented; nothing gets past her."
Chambers USA 2024
"Katharine is very technically strong. She has a really great understanding of how the debt practice works."
Chambers USA 2023
"Very well regarded, very smart, very practical and good to work with."
Chambers USA 2022
"A great and knowledgeable lawyer who is very practical in her approach."
Chambers USA 2022
"She is a highly regarded attorney, who is very easy to work with."
Chambers USA 2021
MVP of the Year – Tax
Law360 2023
Profile
Katharine Moir, Global Chair of the firm’s Tax Department, advises leading private equity firms and companies on tax issues arising in their largest and most complex transactions.
Katharine provides comprehensive tax counsel in connection with a range of domestic and international transactions and is widely recognized as a leading private equity tax lawyer. Her work includes advising on tax issues related to complicated US and international transactions, including:
Mergers and acquisitions
Joint ventures
Recapitalizations
Structured investments
Formation of private equity funds
Securities offerings
Katharine regularly represents leading private equity firms, as well as top technology and other companies. Her experience spans a number of landmark and high-value deals — including advising Dell in the largest technology deal to date.
Prior to joining Latham, Katharine served as a tax partner and head of the West Coast tax practice at a leading international law firm.
Experience
Katharine’s experience includes advising:
KKR in its acquisition of Marmic Fire & Safety
CPPIB and IKAV Capital Partners in the US$2.1 billion sale of Aera Energy to California Resources Corporation
TPG Capital in its:
Establishment of a new talent representation business and simultaneous investment in Untitled Entertainment
Majority investment in Confluent Medical Technologies
Apollo Hybrid Value Fund in its minority interest in GI Alliance Holdings
Cerevel Therapeutics in its US$8.7 billion sale to AbbVie Inc.
Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its US$2.15 billion acquisition of a minority equity interest in NIPSCO
Silverlake in its US$12.5 billion take-private acquisition of Qualtrics
Madison Dearborn Partners in its US$1.8 billion take-private acquisition of MoneyGram
Mediawan in its acquisition of Plan B Entertainment
KKR in its US$1.1 billion acquisition of Kobalt Capital’s KMR Music Royalties II portfolio
Headspace in its acquisition of Ginger.io, developer of a platform for on-demand mental healthcare
Dell in its US$67 billion acquisition of EMC, the largest technology deal to date*
Global Chair of the Transactional Tax Practice honored for advising industry-leading clients on the tax aspects of recent M&A transactions, often involving multiple stakeholders and complex tax-related carve-out issues.
Multidisciplinary team represents the global alternative asset manager in the purchase of a majority stake in the multi-trade industrial and specialty services contractor.
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