Bio

Abraham Reshtick is a partner and a member of the firm’s Tax Department, Special Situations and Distressed Investing teams. Avi is also a co-chair of the firm’s Israel and Middle East practice. Chambers USA recognizes Avi as a leading tax lawyer, citing clients who say he “an excellent ability to take complex tax issues and explain them clearly and concisely without losing sight of nuances.” Avi provides tax advice to strategic clients, as well as private equity and hedge funds and their portfolio companies in structuring and tax-optimizing their U.S. and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, tax-free spinoffs, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, distressed investing, and other strategic combinations as well as debt financing, capital markets transactions and financial restructurings. Avi advises private equity funds as well as strategic clients on tax-structuring considerations relating to the acquisition, combination and disposition of private and public, domestic, and foreign portfolio companies, as well as related financing arrangements. Avi has extensive experience handling complex tax considerations in high-stakes in-court and out-of-court restructurings and workouts on behalf of creditors’ committees, bondholders and companies. His tax-restructuring experience spans more than two decades and multiple industries, including the restructuring cases of Enron, Winn Dixie, Edison Mission, Energy & Exploration, Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt, LATAM Airlines, Endo International, Rite Aid and Diamond Sports Group.