Cross-Border M&A Planning Strategies and Tax Developments: Structuring, Compliance, and Risk Mitigation

This CLE course will highlight emerging tax developments U.S. buyers and sellers must consider when structuring cross-border M&A transactions, along with practical planning guidance for M&A attorneys. From upfront tax assessments through post-transaction integration, the course will address key tax and corporate considerations for planning cross-border deals.

Merging with or acquiring a company is complex even in basic circumstances, but cross-border M&A adds additional planning hurdles, legal obligations, and more significant tax-planning challenges. Businesses must assess the target company's local tax regime, double tax treaties, and related issues to determine whether a deal offers tax advantages or creates greater liabilities—an analysis that often affects financing. As multinational deals face heightened scrutiny from tax authorities worldwide, understanding the interplay between U.S. and foreign tax regimes is essential to preserving deal value and avoiding costly missteps.

This webcast will help M&A professionals structure more efficient transactions with an emphasis on tax consequences. This program will help practitioners navigate anti-deferral regimes, avoid compliance missteps, and advise buyer and seller clients with a better appreciation of a deal's tax obligations. The faculty will address key tax assessments for cross-border due diligence, examining deal structure options and how structures affect tax burdens and financing, and other practical planning considerations. They will also spotlight the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's (OBBBA) effect on CFC income in cross-border M&A, other tax developments, and emerging international tax changes.

Listen as our authoritative panel discusses cross-border M&A and the tax issues and deal structuring strategies that will help buyers and sellers maximize outcomes.