Representative Transactions

William P. Ewing
wewing@marshall-lueder.com
Direct: 678.514.2706

• Southern Company – Tax counsel in connection with investments exceeding $500 million in various partnerships generating tax credits from the sale of synthetic fuel and coke.
• Southern Company – Tax counsel in connection with various sale/leaseback transactions exceeding $3.0 billion with respect to electric generation and other energy assets located in Europe and the United States.
• Tax counsel to major financial institutions in connection with partnership investments generating new markets tax credits and affordable housing tax credits.
• Tax counsel in connection with wide variety of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs and partnership and hedge fund investments.
• Tax counsel to various corporate taxpayers in the tax controversy area relating to tax credit, leasing, REIT and purchase price allocation issues, including one recent case, which was successfully tried before U.S. Tax Court (Becker v. Becker Holding Corporation, T.C. Memo 2006-264 (2006)).
• Tax counsel in connection with various inbound and outbound tax planning structures, including implementation of DISC structures, repatriation of foreign earnings and holding company structures.