Todd focuses on the US federal income tax law aspects of transactional matters, including representing publicly traded and privately held companies in both domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions; negotiating private equity fund agreements and operating partnership agreements; negotiating credit and financing agreements; reviewing capital market debt and equity offering materials, and planning bankruptcy and insolvency restructurings.
Representative Experience
- Represented a hospitality group that operates international entertainment, dining and nightlife venues in its partnership with a leader in live sports and entertainment. *
- Represented a REIT in its merger-of-equals with a global investor/asset manager of commercial real estate to create a leading industrial and office net lease REIT. *
- Represented a multimedia conglomerate in its joint venture with an American pay television network to launch a new 24-hour cable channel. *
- Represented a private equity firm headquartered in New York City in acquiring multiple providers of fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services. *
- Represented an informal committee of certain holders of secured and unsecured notes of an industry resource for high-quality, precision chassis casting and machining solutions, as well as certain lenders, under the company's post-petition and exit term loan credit facility, in connection with the company's restructuring through a pre-arranged chapter 11 case. *
* Experience prior to Katten
PRACTICES
- Private Equity
- Transactional Tax Planning
INDUSTRIES
- Finance and Financial Markets
