International Business Structuring

and Entity Formation

We provide business counseling to assist foreign companies with setting up a presence in the United States, including advice regarding the proper choice of entity, and we prepare documentation to form the entity and will make the necessary government filings. We provide similar services for U.S.-based businesses who wish to establish a presence in a foreign country, drawing upon the resources of our ILN member firms. We also assist with transnational mergers and acquisitions, as well as the establishment of joint ventures and other vehicles to conduct foreign business and investment. We are able to provide counseling which takes into account related tax, antitrust and regulatory issues regarding the transactions.

We provide assistance in other key business areas, including distributorship and dealer agreements, employment benefit plans and other employee-related issues, investment registration with various U.S. government agencies and government regulation of specific industries. We also provide assistance with insurance issues.

 

We advise financial institutions and other U.S. business on a broad range of issues involving anti-money laundering. Our experience includes pre-litigation counseling to companies on the reporting of suspicious activities and establishing anti-money laundering compliance programs, as well as reviewing and revising customer profile forms in order to allow our clients to procure the necessary information from their customers. We also provide litigation services in this area.
 

We are able to counsel both U.S. and foreign businesses regarding corruption-related matters and provide assistance with establishing and implementing training and compliance programs. We also assist clients with conducting internal investigations of potential corruption issues, as well as investigations in connection with pending governmental investigations. Our services in this area include the representation of businesses in enforcement proceedings.

Intellectual Property

We provide counseling as to U.S. and foreign regulation of technology transfers and other issues involved technology transfer and sharing arrangements between businesses and individuals. We also negotiate, review and prepare licensing and technology transfer and sharing agreements, and assist with protecting and registering trademark and other intellectual property rights within and outside of the United States.

We provide assistance to foreign based businesses who wish to establish a U.S. subsidiary or other U.S. presence so as to minimize the taxation of their business operations within this country. We also advise U.S. based businesses with tax issues involved in their overseas expansion. We provide tax advice for cross-border business acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, real estate purchase and lease transactions, and joint ventures.

 

We assist clients with coordinating their estate and gift tax planning in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions, including preparing wills and trusts in the U.S. and will coordinate with overseas counsel for the preparation of foreign estate plans. We also are able to handle international probate and work with foreign counsel to coordinate foreign estate administration.
 

We provide representation before international arbitration tribunals and in litigation proceedings in foreign countries. Our membership in the global ILN network assists us with the effective handling of a broad range of litigation matters overseas, including regulatory proceedings and other types of disputes involving governmental entities; employment and labor disputes; products liability and other tort litigation proceedings; contractual disputes and other types of commercial litigation; and white collar criminal proceedings. We also assist our clients with the execution and enforcement of judicial and arbitration awards outside the United States.