As the world’s largest economy and hub for private capital, the US is a key market for our clients.
We support both corporate or private clients with matters across the US and internationally, working across the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to provide joined-up advice that reflects our clients’ personal and business objectives. Our presence in New York and Connecticut enables us to combine international expertise with a strong understanding of the US market.
We work with some of North America America’s leading corporates, from established companies to start-ups. We can advise you on your international expansion, advising on corporate deals, immigration, employment, real estate, intellectual property, data protection, and contracts, giving you tailored advice every step of the way.
Our market-leading private client team acts for families and family offices, successful entrepreneurs, private banks, and wealth managers. We are particularly noted for our work dealing with US tax planning and related issues.
We understand the need to be connected to industry, regulators, and decision makers to expand our knowledge of the region where you conduct business. Through holding leadership positions with organisations such as BritishAmerican Business and the American Bar Association, we stay on top of the broader issues that may affect your business or personal matters.
Experience
- A UK-based US entrepreneur required a succession plan which we provided to overlay the future operation and ownership of business in the US and UK.
- Following the death of a grantor, we advised on how a foreign grantor trust should be decanted into a series of US domestic and foreign trusts.
- Working closely with local US counsel, we advised our client on the merits of bringing infringement action in the first instance on a cross-jurisdictional basis across GB, CN, JP, US and EP patents.
- We completed an exercise for a UK resident non-US individual on how to transfer his carried interest to a trust. This required balancing the UK inheritance tax advantages against the complex US and UK income tax treatment for the individual and his heirs.
- Our London and Paris offices worked together with a US security software company to bring about the lawful termination of their contract with a distributor in France by ensuring that proceedings were instigated in England rather than in France. This produced successful results for our client.
- In order to comply with data protection law requirements, we assisted a multinational, US headquartered construction company on legitimising personal data flows between the UK/EU and the US.
- Assisting US owned fund on outsourcing and commercial contracts for UK Based science park including facilities management, broker appointments and supply agreement terms
- Copyright Clearance Centre, a US based rights management organisiation required assistance with UK acquisition and multinational IT development and services agreements. Our technology team completed this work successfully.
- Acted for leading global children's entertainment company Spin Master Corp., whose brands include PAW Patrol and Rubik’s Cube, on the UK aspects of its $950m acquisition of US-based Melissa & Doug.
- Acted for Gibson Brands, Inc as lead investor on a $50 million investment into the Venue Group, which was set up by founding Mumford & Sons member Ben Lovett and his brother Greg and which owns and operates Flat Iron Square, Omeara, St Felix and Goods Way in London, and certain other sites in the US.
- Advised Avalara, a leading provider of tax compliance automation software for businesses of all sizes, on the acquisition of Impendulo Limited, a London-based provider of insurance tax compliance services and software solutions.
