David Dreier Bio

David's practice focuses on a wide range of domestic and international tax issues and structures which arise in M&A, restructuring, bank financing and securitization transactions. He represents public and private corporations and private equity firms on various aspects of taxable and tax-free M&A transactions. He also maintains an active practice in corporate, partnership and international transactions such as domestic and multi-jurisdictional stock purchases, mergers, leveraged buy-outs, spin-offs and joint ventures. David advises clients in the United States and globally on various domestic tax issues related to partnerships, corporations and consolidated groups. He also focuses on both inbound tax issues for non-US companies operating in the US and outbound tax issues for US companies operating outside the US, on topics such as FATCA, FIRPTA, controlled foreign corporations, passive foreign investment companies, foreign tax credits, branch profits tax and tax treaties. David has extensive experience representing debtors and creditors regarding the tax aspects of bankruptcies, insolvencies and workouts. He represents US and non-US lenders and borrowers in domestic and international bank financing transactions. In addition, David is actively involved in the Firm's securitization practice, and regularly provides tax advice to arrangers and managers in domestic and international securitization transactions, and in particular, those involving collateralized loan obligations. He has also represented clients in IRS audits and other tax litigation matters, and has helped clients to obtain private letter rulings. Key private equity clients which have recently benefited from David's knowledge and insight on tax issues include Ares Management, Elliott Capital, Highpost Capital, Harvest Partners, Mill Rock Capital, Sole Source Capital, Entrepreneurial Equity Partners, Alberta Investment Management, Investcorp and Encap. He has also recently advised clients including Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Greensledge, Golub Capital, Antares Capital and Goldman Sachs on various lending and securitization transactions; Echostar and Zimmer Biomet on recent pubic spin-off transactions; Sempra Energy, NRG Energy, NTT Data, JBS, Calpine, Cobepa, DeLonghi International, Macquarie Infrastructure, OpenText and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure on various M&A matters; and The Hertz Corporation, Swissport Financing, Occidental Petroleum, LS Power, and creditors of Salt Creek Gas and Global Cloud Xchange on potential restructuring transactions.