Louis J. Weber, III
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Lou, former Tax Department Chair, has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of corporate and private equity transactional issues.
Partner
Lou, former Tax Department Chair, has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of corporate and private equity transactional issues.
Lou concentrates his practice in transactional and controversy matters. He advises clients on a wide variety of corporate and private equity transactional issues. He advises clients on numerous issues related to both taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions on behalf of public and private buyers and sellers, and on behalf of private equity funds and their portfolio companies. He also has advised clients: in structuring tax-free reorganizations, recapitalizations, and acquisitions in contemplation of public offerings or in connection with private equity funds’ portfolio investments; on tax disclosure issues related to public offerings; on numerous consolidated return issues; and on issues related to its debt offerings and restructurings.
Lou also has a significant tax controversy practice involving both publicly and privately held companies. His controversy practice has included substantial cases involving: amortization of intangibles; capitalization of expenses under section 263A; capitalization and amortization of various fees and expenses; defense of products or transactions characterized by the Internal Revenue Service as tax shelters; defense of tax-free reorganizations; and application of the step-transaction doctrine.
His representative clients include: The Jordan Company; The Resolute Funds; JZ Capital Partners Inc.; Bolder Capital; Lear Corporation; Motorola, Inc.; Waste Management, Inc.; and Yum! Brands, Inc.
Lou was honored in the 2008, 2010, and 2012–2015 editions of Chambers USA and the peer rankings-based 2006, 2007, 2012, 2015–2016, and 2019–2025 editions of Best Lawyers in America® for tax law. In 2018, Lou was recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. for non-contentious work within the tax industry.
Lou received a B.S., with honors, from the University of Notre Dame in 1979 and a J.D., summa cum laude, from Notre Dame Law School in 1985.
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