Jessica A. Hough
Attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Washington, District Of Columbia
Jessica Hough, Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, represents clients on a wide range of tax matters, with particular emphasis on mergers, acquisitions and divestiture transactions, including spin-offs, debt and equity offerings, corporate and partnership restructurings, and joint ventures.
Ms. Hough practices primarily in the area of U.S. federal income taxation, advising clients across various industries in a wide range of transactions and controversies. She has a broad-based M&A tax practice across various industries, she also advises clients in the financial services sector on insurance-related corporate transactions, including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, restructurings and related matters. She has extensive experience in the U.S. and international insurance and reinsurance industries, having represented numerous industry participants in all lines of business, including life, health, property and casualty, and specialty lines. In recent years, Ms. Hough has worked on insurance-related tax matters for Aflac Incorporated; Cigna Corporation; FBL Financial; Jackson National Life; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; MetLife, Inc.; Pacificare Health Systems; ProMutual Group; Safeco Corporation; SCOR SE; Selective Insurance Group; Travelers Property Casualty Corp.; UnitedHealth Group Inc.; and Validus Holdings, Ltd.
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Ms. Hough practices primarily in the area of U.S. federal income taxation, advising clients across various industries in a wide range of transactions and controversies. She has a broad-based M&A tax practice across various industries, she also advises clients in the financial services sector on insurance-related corporate transactions, including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, restructurings and related matters. She has extensive experience in the U.S. and international insurance and reinsurance industries, having represented numerous industry participants in all lines of business, including life, health, property and casualty, and specialty lines. In recent years, Ms. Hough has worked on insurance-related tax matters for Aflac Incorporated; Cigna Corporation; FBL Financial; Jackson National Life; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; MetLife, Inc.; Pacificare Health Systems; ProMutual Group; Safeco Corporation; SCOR SE; Selective Insurance Group; Travelers Property Casualty Corp.; UnitedHealth Group Inc.; and Validus Holdings, Ltd.
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Jessica Hough, Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, represents clients on a wide range of tax matters, with particular emphasis on mergers, acquisitions and divestiture transactions, including spin-offs, debt and equity offerings, corporate and partnership restructurings, and joint ventures.
Ms. Hough practices primarily in the area of U.S. federal income taxation, advising clients across various industries in a wide range of transactions and controversies. She has a broad-based M&A tax practice across various industries, she also advises clients in the financial services sector on insurance-related corporate transactions, including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, restructurings and related matters. She has extensive experience in the U.S. and international insurance and reinsurance industries, having represented numerous industry participants in all lines of business, including life, health, property and casualty, and specialty lines. In recent years, Ms. Hough has worked on insurance-related tax matters for Aflac Incorporated; Cigna Corporation; FBL Financial; Jackson National Life; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; MetLife, Inc.; Pacificare Health Systems; ProMutual Group; Safeco Corporation; SCOR SE; Selective Insurance Group; Travelers Property Casualty Corp.; UnitedHealth Group Inc.; and Validus Holdings, Ltd.
Ms. Hough also is consulted regularly on tax matters related to corporate restructurings. She has represented a number of clients in connection with restructurings involving tax-free spin-offs, including Duke Energy Corporation in its spin-off of Spectra Energy Corp., Temple-Inland Inc. in its spin-offs of Guaranty Financial Group and Forestar Real Estate Group, and Applied Biosystems Inc. in its split-off of Celera Corporation.
Ms. Hough practices primarily in the area of U.S. federal income taxation, advising clients across various industries in a wide range of transactions and controversies. She has a broad-based M&A tax practice across various industries, she also advises clients in the financial services sector on insurance-related corporate transactions, including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, restructurings and related matters. She has extensive experience in the U.S. and international insurance and reinsurance industries, having represented numerous industry participants in all lines of business, including life, health, property and casualty, and specialty lines. In recent years, Ms. Hough has worked on insurance-related tax matters for Aflac Incorporated; Cigna Corporation; FBL Financial; Jackson National Life; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; MetLife, Inc.; Pacificare Health Systems; ProMutual Group; Safeco Corporation; SCOR SE; Selective Insurance Group; Travelers Property Casualty Corp.; UnitedHealth Group Inc.; and Validus Holdings, Ltd.
Ms. Hough also is consulted regularly on tax matters related to corporate restructurings. She has represented a number of clients in connection with restructurings involving tax-free spin-offs, including Duke Energy Corporation in its spin-off of Spectra Energy Corp., Temple-Inland Inc. in its spin-offs of Guaranty Financial Group and Forestar Real Estate Group, and Applied Biosystems Inc. in its split-off of Celera Corporation.
