Bio

Christian Brause focuses on advising U.S. and non-U.S. clients on U.S. tax aspects of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions and other major domestic and international transactions, including spinoffs, corporate restructurings, de-SPAC transactions, joint ventures, debt financings, and IPOs, including SPAC IPOs. He also advises clients in respect to the structuring (and restructuring) of alternative investments and the formation of alternative investment vehicles, including private equity funds, hedge funds, and real estate funds. Christian focuses in particular on REITs (including mortgage REITs), as well as GP-stakes transactions. His clients have included, in addition to all major investment banks, KKR, Siris Capital, Clearlake Capital, WCAS, Thoma Bravo, TowerBrook, Wafra, and GIC, among others. Christian has been consistently recognized by Chambers USA for his work in New York Tax (2020–2023), as well as in USA – Nationwide REITs: Tax (2019–2023), where he was lauded as “impressive, smart and thoughtful.” Clients describe him as someone who “thinks deeply about matters and . . . is generous with his time” and who is “thoughtful, responsive, and knows the rules and market well” (2021). He is also recommended in Domestic Tax: East Coast and International Tax in The Legal 500 US 2013, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds, Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (2015–2017), Tax: International Tax (2016–2017), and in U.S. Taxes: Non-contentious (2017) in The Legal 500 US. Christian was also recognized in the Tax Directors Handbook 2014.