Section 59A Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax

Robert C. Stevenson

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

• Senior associate in the Washington, DC office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Adjunct professor teaching on corporate taxation at Howard University School of Law
• Advises both U.S. and international clients on a broad range of tax transactional, planning and controversy matters, which frequently include an international tax component, such as cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures, post-acquisition integration and restructuring transactions, public and private company mergers and acquisitions, capital market offerings, spin-offs and “Morris Trust” transactions, and subpart F and tax reform planning
• Also frequently advises clients in the financial services sector on insurance-related corporate transactions, including insurance company mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, restructurings and related matters
• Recent publications on international taxation include Moshe Spinowitz and Robert C. Stevenson, To Check or Not to Check? The TCJA’s Impact on Entity Classification Decisions, INT’L TAX J. March-April 2019; Hal Hicks, Moshe Spinowitz, and Robert C Stevenson, Chapter 37 United States, The Inward Investment And International Taxation Review 9th ed. (Tim Sanders, Editor, 2019); Paul E. Schockett and Robert C. Stevenson, International Corporate Tax Reform and Partnership Taxation: Fitting a Triangular Peg into a Rectangular Hole, INT’L TAX J. July-August 2018; Robert C. Stevenson, A Decade of Shooting Itself in the Foot: The IRS’s Battle Against the Killer B, INT’L TAX J. May-June 2017
• Admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, DC.
• J.D. and LL.M. degree in taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC; B.S. degree in chemical engineering, Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York, NY
• Can be contact at 202-371-7056 or [email protected]