Overview Choate’s tax and executive compensation attorneys specialize in complex middle-market transactions, with a focus on advising leading private equity funds, venture capital funds, and their portfolio companies in mergers and acquisitions, LBOs, growth equity investments, recapitalizations, carve-outs, sales and divestitures, and all aspects of fund formation and capital raising. Tax: Our team of tax experts has extensive experience in mergers & acquisitions involving both strategic and financial buyers (including numerous private equity fund sponsors), international tax planning and structuring of cross-border transactions – particularly involving Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Ireland, and the UK, as well as numerous other foreign jurisdictions – and investment fund formation, including private equity and venture capital funds, as well as domestic and offshore alternative investment vehicles (“AIVs”). Executive Compensation: We regularly advise publicly-traded companies, private businesses and tax-exempt organizations, as well as senior executives and compensation committees, on a range of design, implementation, governance, disclosure, and transactional issues, with particular expertise in M&A and private equity transactions. In addition to tax and ERISA matters, our team also brings deep experience with the securities, employment and corporate laws relating to executive compensation and employee benefit plans.