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Richard Nugent is a transactional lawyer with significant expertise in the tax aspects of public and private corporate mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs. He also has experience advising clients on cross-border tax strategies, the tax consequences of restructurings and bankruptcies, and financing transactions.

Richard also has authored or co-authored several articles on U.S. tax issues.

Richard received his LL.M., with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center; his J.D., with honors, from Rutgers School of Law; and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Saint Peter’s College. He served as a clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and The Honorable Robert P. Ruwe of the United States Tax Court.

Victor Hollender advises on a wide range of U.S. and international tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, cross-border financings, spin-offs, IPOs, taxation of sovereign entities, and public and private infrastructure transactions. Mr. Hollender has extensive experience advising on and structuring a wide variety of financial products, hybrid capital and derivatives transactions, as well as transactions involving the formation and operation of partnerships and joint ventures.

Mr. Hollender also represents U.S. and international corporations and investment banks in connection with private and public offerings of debt, equity and other financial instruments. He also has extensive experience in forming investment funds, including exchange funds.

Mr. Hollender lectures in continuing legal education programs and is a contributing author to the Practising Law Institute’s Federal Income Taxation Seminar on topics relating to financial products, partnerships and joint ventures, and corporate tax shelter regulations.

Mr. Hollender was included in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2009 and 2010.