Transactional Tax

Meet the Team
"An acclaimed practice noted for its capabilities in the tax structuring of corporate deals, with considerable cross-border capabilities."

Chambers USA 2025

Band 1: Tax: Corporate & Finance (Nationwide)

Chambers USA 2025

"Latham & Watkins has strong international experience, very good case work history and a proactive and strategic approach."

Chambers USA 2025

"[A]dvise[s] a wide range of industries, including financial services, energy, life sciences, and natural resources, on the full breadth of transactional tax practices, including cross-border and complex international issues and structures."

Legal 500 US 2025

"First-rate choice of counsel for heavyweight tax transactions."

Chambers USA 2025

"A well-respected transactional practice with strong expertise in cross-border deals and tax planning. It frequently advises on high-value financings and M&A for an impressive roster of US and international companies."

Chambers USA 2025

"The tax team at Latham & Watkins are very responsive, calm and smart."

Chambers USA 2025

"You will rarely come across transactional tax attorneys that are this commercially minded. They are not ones to lose the forest for the trees when it comes to negotiating from a tax perspective."

Chambers USA 2024

Practice Group of the Year – Tax

Law360 2022

"Stellar work on both transactional and contentious matters."

Chambers Global 2023

Overview

Transactional tax lawyers at Latham work as an integral part of our deal and client teams.

We leverage our experience structuring and negotiating a vast volume of transactions to meet clients’ business objectives in a tax-efficient manner. And because our team understands the nuances of how tax issues impact every facet of a deal, we can provide creative, workable, commercial-oriented solutions. 

We advise clients on the tax aspects of a full range of matters, including:

  • Mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions (taxable and tax-free)
  • Cross-border transactions and international tax planning
  • Private equity transactions
  • Joint ventures and partnerships
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency workouts and other capital restructurings
  • Strategic restructurings
  • Capital markets transactions
  • Investment fund formation and structuring
  • Renewable energy tax credits
  • Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
  • Up-Cs
  • SPACs, IPOs, and de-SPAC transactions
  • Securitizations and financial products
  • Financings
  • Tax-free spinoffs, split-offs, and split-ups
  • Master limited partnerships (MLPs)
Transactional tax lawyers at Latham work as an integral part of our deal and client teams.

Contacts

Dewitz, Matthew C.

Matthew C. Dewitz

New York
matthew.dewitz@lw.com +1.212.906.4617
Meet the Team

Recognition

Zomorodi, Pardis
November 19, 2025 Recognition

Tax MVP: Latham’s Pardis Zomorodi

Partner Pardis Zomorodi was named a 2025 Law360 Tax MVP for advising longtime clients on the tax aspects of transformative deals, including Skydance Media’s merger with Paramount Global and Lineage Logistics’ IPO, the largest IPO of 2024. 

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Tax Capital Markets Derivatives, Equities & Structured Products Executive Compensation, Employment & Benefits Investment Funds Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity Restructuring & Special Situations SPAC Structured Finance