U.S Practice

DeForest has a team that advises multinational companies and foreign investor on legal issues that impact their global business strategies.

Our team helps clients structure their investments and commercial transactions to take full advantage of opportunities in the United States. We also assist foreign companies in the establishment and expansion of U. S. operations.  Our team also develops solutions to help clients overcome strategic, operational and compliance challenges they face in the United States pertaining to corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, labor, real estate and taxation.

Our broad-based business-transactional practice focusing on complex corporate and taxation in the United States, utilizes our global perspective and collaborative approach to enable us to provide clients with practical, innovative advice on a wide range of transactions.

The main services we provide are the following:

• Cross-Border Counseling & Transactions;
• Corporate Structures and Finance;
• Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, (FATCA);
• Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, (FBAR);
• Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act, (FIRPTA);
• Global Structuring & Integration;
• Real Estate Investment and Planning;
• Tax Planning & Controversies;
• Technology & Communications;
• Transportation;
• Wealth Planning and Preservation;
• Among others.