"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:
Skillz in its US$150 million acquisition of Aarki
Okta in its US$6.5 billion acquisition of Auth0
Dell in its US$67 billion acquisition of EMC, the largest technology deal to date*
Hellman & Friedman in its US$1.2 billion acquisition of Checkmarx, an Israeli private company*
KKR in its US$2.2 billion acquisition of international operations from Campbell Soup Company*
Hellman & Friedman in its US$11 billion acquisition of Ultimate Software*
Calsonic Kansei (KKR portfolio company) in its US$7.1 billion acquisition of Magneti Marelli*
Silver Lake Partners in its US$3.5 billion acquisition of Blackhawk Networks*
Silver Lake Partners in its US$1.5 billion acquisition of First Advantage*
Hellman & Friedman in its acquisition of MultiPlan*
Silver Lake Partners and GIC in their US$2.6 billion strategic investment in Ancestry.com*
KKR in its US$1.2 billion sale of Alliance Tire Group to Yokohama Rubber*
Alibaba Group in its private acquisition of Youku Tudou*
Interactive Data Corporation in its US$5.2 billion acquisition by Intercontinental Exchange*
Microsoft Corporation in its US$19.75 billion debt offering*
Silver Lake in the establishment of Silver Lake Partners IV, L.P., with US$10.3 billion in total commitments, the largest amount ever raised for a technology investment-focused private equity fund*
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.
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