14th Annual London Finance and Capital Markets Conference
20 Jan - 21 Jan 2025
Session information
Description
1) Panellists will discuss the recent trend of companies taking steps to access US capital markets and support US listings and/or inclusion in US Market Indexes and the varied tax considerations that follow, including:
- overview of some typical restructuring steps undertaken by companies to support such listing or inclusion;
- consequences of restructuring, moving headquarters (management and control) or formally redomesticating from present jurisdiction to the US; and
- stakeholder impacts.
- application of the US anti-inversion rules to redomesticated US companies or new foreign (non-US) parent company;
- consequences of an inverted company in the US and relevant non-US jurisdiction(s); and
- challenges faced by both US and non-US stakeholders receiving distributions from or participating in reorganisation transactions involving an inverted US company.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
Francesco Gucciardo | Aird & Berlis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Co-Chair, Taxes Committee |
Speakers
Devon Bodoh | Weil Gotshal & Manges, Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
Olivier Dauchez | Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I., Paris, France |
Reto Heuberger | Homburger AG, Zürich, Switzerland |
Mike Lane | Slaughter and May, London, England |
Elissa Romanin | MinterEllison, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Treasurer, Taxes Committee |
Matthias Scheifele | Hengeler Mueller, Munich, Germany |
Katharina Schindler | Schindler Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Vienna, Austria |