Tax Law & Planning.
Tax is the one cost you can still negotiate — if you plan before the year closes. We structure deals, estates, and businesses to pay what the law requires and not a dollar more, coordinating with our corporate and commercial colleagues so the structure outlives the transaction.
$180mIn documented savings delivered to planning clients
60+Audits and controversies closed without a penalty assessment
25yrAverage client relationship in our private-wealth practice
Overview
The tax code is long, but most of it is instructions for people who plan ahead. Elections, credits, treaties, and restructures reward those who act before the transaction — and barely help those who call after. Our job is the call before.
Business and transactional tax, international structuring and transfer pricing, estate and gift planning, and representation in audits, appeals, and litigation. We write opinions that withstand scrutiny, and we answer the letters nobody wants to open.
Cross-border families and businesses are served from our Chicago headquarters, with our London headquarters and associated counsel in Singapore aligning the foreign side of the structure — residence, treaties, reporting. One plan, every flag accounted for, no jurisdiction surprising another.
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The structure they built saved us a sum with seven figures — and survived an audit untouched.CFO survey, 2025
Two sentences into the first meeting, they spotted the mistake three accountants had missed.Business owner, 2025
Recent work
Matters we're proud of
Planning
Pre-sale restructuring completed for a second-generation family business
Controversy
Multi-year audit closed with no adjustment on the contested items
International
Treaty position documented for a manufacturer’s overseas expansion
Estates
Generational transfer plan executed with zero current tax cost
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Plan first. Pay what the law requires.
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