Andrew Betaque
Partner
Andrew has extensive experience with the tax structuring of corporate mergers, acquisitions, internal restructurings, tax-free reorganizations, and spin-offs.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Advised one of the largest foreign telecommunications companies in the world regarding a cross-border tax-free spin-off of certain of its subsidiaries and obtained a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service regarding same.
- Advised a publicly traded media company regarding a tax-free spin-off of one of its principal lines of business and obtained a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service regarding same.
- Provided advice with respect to dozens of acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies for private equity companies.
- Represented the sponsors in connection with the formation of a large real estate investment fund.
- Structured the cross-border post-acquisition integration of the target corporate group into the global structure of a large multinational acquiring company.
- Advised the contributor with respect to the tax-deferred contribution of appreciated real property to a fund in return for partnership interests and cash in a leveraged partnership transaction.
- Structured the tax-free division of a partnership engaged in the business of operating movie theaters.
- Drafted the tax and economic provisions of dozens of partnership and limited liability company agreements, typically providing for profits interests, compensatory options, warrants, special allocations, debt-financed distributions, reimbursement of preformation expenditures and/or other special features.