We provide sophisticated federal, state and local tax advice. We advise clients in planning and structuring transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, consolidations, formations, restructurings, dissolutions, debt and equity financings and joint ventures. We advise on a wide range of tax issues including the tax effects of granting stock options and other equity or equity-related incentives, partnership and limited liability company tax issues, S corporation issues and other matters arising in the context of closely held or family businesses. We appear on behalf of clients in tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board and federal and state courts.









