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James T. Chudy james.chudy @pillsburylaw.com New York
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Mr. Chudy advises on the federal income tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, spin-offs, joint ventures and securities offerings for domestic and international clients across a broad spectrum of industries. He also has significant experience in private equity and cross-border investments, partnership formations and transactions, bankruptcy reorganizations and work-outs, lending and other corporate finance transactions and general tax issues confronted by businesses, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. Mr. Chudy has represented public utilities in strategic mergers; a private equity group in over $1 billion of acquisitions in the U.S., Europe and Australia, including equity and debt financings and restructurings of portfolio companies; a major public utility in internal and external spin-offs; an electronic messaging company in its early stage financing, IPO and follow-on securities offerings and in a series of acquisitions; a privately-held energy company in a split-off to separate two shareholder groups; a major metropolitan newspaper in its strategic transactions; a public Mexican company in acquisitions and dispositions of foreign- and U.S.-based agricultural and biotechnology businesses and a public U.K. manufacturing company in connection with its U.S. acquisitions program. He has also represented foreign and domestic issuers and underwriters in inbound and outbound public and private offerings of debt, equity, convertible and exchangeable securities (including high-yield debt, trust preferred securities (such as TOPrS and enhanced TOPrS), LYONs, contingent LYONs, PATS and equity security units (such as FELINE PRIDES)); a major U.K. law firm as special U.S. tax counsel in inbound and outbound securities offerings; a major investment bank as placement agent for venture capital investments in emerging companies (primarily convertible securities and investment units) and solicitation agents and issuers in consent and proxy solicitations. Mr. Chudy has lectured and written on the federal income tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions for professional groups including the American Bar Association and the Practising Law Institute and has authored articles on that topic for publications including the Journal of Corporate Taxation, Practising Law Institute and the NYU Institute on Federal Taxation. He is co-author of a treatise, "Stock Purchases Treated as Asset Acquisitions - Section 338," in the BNA Tax Management Portfolio series. Education J.D., Harvard Law School, 1984 (Executive Editor, Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review) B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981 (Mathematics & Physics, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa) Affiliations Admitted to practice: State of New York Member of: American Bar Association (Tax Section); New York State Bar Association (Tax Section); BNA Tax Management Advisory Board (U.S. Income Series)
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