Bio

Andrew Kreisberg practice focuses on domestic and international tax law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, real estate joint ventures, REITs, and the formation and operation of investment funds. Andrew represents private equity sponsors through all aspects of acquiring and divesting of assets, including optimizing basis step-ups and other tax benefits, structuring tax-efficient rollovers for sellers, efficient use of debt, and various forms of exit scenarios. Andrew's experience extends to stock and asset acquisitions, including tax-free reorganizations and restructurings. Many of these transactions are cross-border deals that required complex structuring to accommodate the business and tax considerations of the parties involved. Andrew also works extensively in fund formation, with both domestic and international sponsors. In these transactions, Andrew is responsible for structuring the receipt of management fees and carried interest for fund sponsors, optimizing the tax treatment of payments to fund executives, and developing the most advantageous fund structures to minimize the tax burdens on investors. Andrew works extensively on transactions involving real estate investment trusts, or "REITs", both public and private, with particular focus on issues relevant to cross-border investors. Andrew regularly represents sovereign and sovereign-related entities in investments in private equity, real estate and other alternative investment entities. These clients include sovereign wealth funds in Asia and the Middle East, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks, European foundations and endowments, and trusts affiliated with wholly owned entities of non-US sovereigns.