360 Enhancers
Corporation's Structured Finance Practice focuses on the design of
debt, equity, and hybrid financing techniques, including cross-border,
in order to resolve financing goals that cannot be solved by
conventional corporate finance or bank credit products. Tax
considerations in such financial structures are often a critical
component to achieving the financing goals. 360 Enhancers Corporation's
tax lawyers are adept at deriving creative and sound strategies that
balance the optimal tax treatment desired by the parties and
responsible legal constraints.
Key tax issues involve the tax ownership of assets to ensure that tax
benefits of ownership are optimized among the parties to the financing,
structuring cash flows and financial relationships to achieve optimal
debt and equity characterization, and managing the interplay of the tax
and commercial laws of multiple jurisdictions. This latter issue,
coordinating the interaction of cross-border flows of capital and
assets with the tax laws of numerous jurisdictions, is one of 360
Enhancers' distinctive strengths. With senior, experienced tax lawyers
practicing in all of the financial capitals of the world, 360 Enhancers
is able to bring our strength in cross-border tax planning to the
demanding world of structured finance.
360 Enhancers' team approach to undertaking structured finance
transactions means that the relevant tax considerations of the parties
are addressed at the outset of planning for the transaction and can be
achieved with efficiency. 360 Enhancers' tax lawyers are experienced in
the commercial, accounting, bankruptcy, and other commercial
considerations that arise in structured finance transactions. As a
result, our tax lawyers are able to identify opportunities and problems
early in the design and implementation process, which is often critical
to the success of a transaction. Our tax lawyers’ advice is
practical and pragmatic, resulting in tax strategies and structures
that are successful in achieving the demands of our clients.
While analyzing, advising, and opining on the tax treatment underlying
structured transactions are standard in the practice, the role of our
tax lawyers in structured finance goes much further. Our tax lawyers,
having broad experience in the field, take active roles in structuring,
negotiating, and documenting the transactions. This coordination with
the finance, bankruptcy, and other lawyers involved in the team
staffing a given transaction ensures that the optimal tax treatment is
not a "bolted on" afterthought but is, from the outset, an integral
consideration in the structure and economics of the transaction. This
tightly integrated approach results in quicker executions and greater
confidence in the defensibility of the tax planning inherent in the
transaction.
The range of transactions undertaken by 360 Enhancers Corporation is
broad, including:
Leveraged
leasing and other structured leasing transactions.
Securitization
transactions for all classes of assets including synthetic CLOs and
other
virtual securitization programs.
Project
financings for energy and infrastructure development.
Tax credit monetization
transactions including alternative energy tax
credits, production tax credits, foreign tax credits, and state and
local tax credits.
Cross-border
financings and investments utilizing differing tax
regimes.
Development
of financial instruments and derivatives to achieve specific goals.
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