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By Brooks Igo
(Feb. 6) – Locke Lord announced recently that tax expert Will Becker has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner.
Becker was previously at Andrews Kurth Kenyon. He says he was attracted to Locke Lord’s platform and reputation across the country and in Texas.
“Locke Lord has had a significant and deep-rooted presence in Dallas and in Texas for over a century,” he says. “Locke Lord also has fantastic national tax, corporate and real estate practices that I felt could be very beneficial long-term for my career.”
Becker focuses his practice on tax matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, REITs, real estate joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, spin-offs and restructurings.
One of the most interesting deals he handled this past year included assisting affiliated U.S. and non-U.S. companies in a complex restructuring involving multiple tranches of preferred stock, followed by an acquisition of an S corporation by one of the restructured U.S. companies.
Becker notes clients are looking to their tax advisors to provide analysis on choice of entity questions resulting from recently enacted tax legislation.
“Due to the significant reduction in the U.S. corporate federal income tax rate, clients are considering the most advantageous entity type for their business and, in some cases, whether to change entity type (for example, converting from a partnership to a corporation),” he says.
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