Bio

Richard Martinson provides sophisticated tax planning for a broad range of corporate, partnership, international and other business-related transactions. Richard’s particular areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions (including taxable and tax-free stock and asset acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-offs and intercompany transactions, in both the domestic and cross-border contexts); limited liability companies, partnerships, joint ventures, S corporations, real estate investment trusts and other pass-through business vehicles; corporate restructurings and workouts; tax planning for complex financing transactions (including cross-border financings, start-up, venture capital and private equity investments, and use of tax-sensitive financial instruments); and leveraged leasing and equipment lease financings and real estate-based transactions (including use of both domestic and non-US based real estate investment trusts). Richard currently advises both public and private clients (including “in-bound” multinational corporate clients seeking investment opportunities in the US) in developing creative and cost-efficient solutions for complex tax and corporate transactional problems. Richard has over twenty-five years practice experience in the transactional tax area, including a total of more than twelve years with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, where he led or participated in scores of high-profile, complex business transactions involving both Fortune 100 domestic and foreign corporate clients, as well as privately-held, start-up and portfolio companies.