Bio

Kenneth Kail advises clients on corporate tax issues, including transactional tax planning for US federal and international tax matters. His areas of focus include the tax ramifications of mergers and acquisitions, investments, corporate restructurings, securities offerings, the US activities of foreign taxpayers, the foreign activities of US taxpayers, bankruptcy, executive compensation, and corporation deductions. Clients turn to Ken for guidance on stock and asset acquisitions, reorganizations, spinoffs, venture acquisitions, incorporations, shareholder and intercorporate redemptions, liquidations, and joint ventures. Ken also advises clients on the tax issues surrounding investments such as real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs), partnerships, and swaps. He regularly represents deal sponsors, private equity firms, venture capital and other funds, private and public companies, and management groups. Ken’s work with foreign taxpayers includes branch profits tax, foreign investment in US real property, earnings stripping, transfer pricing, withholding, and treaties. His international work with US taxpayers includes offshore joint ventures, controlled foreign corporations, foreign personal holding companies, passive foreign investment companies, and foreign tax credits. Ken served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Daniel M. Friedman of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1980 to 1981.