We represent clients entering into agreements, such as partnership or joint venture agreements or contracts for the sale or purchase of property, with the goal of avoiding disputes in the future while striving to achieve the best business, legal and tax result for that client.
Ernest established the firm with offices in Pennsylvania and London in 2005, providing professional services to multinational individual, corporate and private equity clients.
Our International Tax Practice is supported extensively from our U.S. office, encompassing not only all aspects of US tax law but also the many other areas that play a role in any structuring or transactional assignment.
We represent clients entering into agreements, such as partnership or joint venture agreements or contracts for the sale or purchase of property, with the goal of avoiding disputes in the future while striving to achieve the best business, legal and tax result for that client.
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Cryptocurrency
Our Cryptocurrency Tax Practice represents a number of individuals and businesses within this growing industry and those having either casual or professional interests in cryptocurrency.
We take care of the bookkeeping and paperwork so that our clients can focus on what is most important to them; earning life-changing wealth that will enable them to achieve all of their goals.
US Federal Tax
Our US Federal tax practice will works closely with business, finance and other legal advisors to develop and implement tax-efficient structuring to satisfy our clients' objectives.
We have experience providing strategic tax planning advice and representation on a variety of complex transactions for US and non-US corporations, partnerships and individuals.
We represent individual and corporate clients in formal and informal audits before the US Internal Revenue Service.
Our International Tax Practice is supported extensively from our U.S. office, encompassing not only all aspects of US tax law but also the many other areas that play a role in any structuring or transactional assignment.
We advise our clients on the structuring of international entities from a tax perspective; the implementation of the structure they adopt, including the establishment of subsidiaries and branches (or their liquidation and dissolution); the drafting of intercompany agreements; and the planning and negotiation of mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations.
Tax Compliance
Our US federal, state and local tax compliance services include the preparation of income tax and informational tax returns for US and non-US corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals, as well as the completion and processing of US federal income tax elections and US employer identification number applications for our international clients.
State and Local Tax
Our State and Local Tax Practice offers a full range of counseling and controversy services, including acquisition and disposition due diligence, transactional planning, tax-advantaged business reorganization or restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and audit defense.
Our controversy practice assists clients who are forced to resort to litigation to protect their rights as taxpayers. Our services are scalable, allowing us to efficiently assist with single jurisdiction controversy resolution as well as multi-jurisdiction litigation and appeals.
Our legal and advisory practice strives to provide simple answers to the most complex problems. We advise clients on issues of estate planning and administration, business and corporate law, real estate law, sports management and bankruptcy.
We offer contract and dispute settlement negotiation services. We draft and negotiate contracts, either as a part of a series of contracts, or as a one-off single engagement. We assist in settling disputes both formally and informally, often finding solutions that neither party had previously considered.