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Paul Carman is a partner in the Tax Department. Paul Carman's practice focuses primarily on structuring the tax consequences of finance and investment transactions and investment vehicles. He also has extensive experience in representation of taxpayers and exempt entities in connection with a wide variety of transactional tax issues, tax compliance issues, and tax controversies, including formation, acquisition and reorganizations of corporations, partnerships and exempt entities, syndications and private placements of investment, hard industry, e-commerce and real estate ventures, leasing, synthetic leasing and like-kind exchanges. Mr. Carman is rated as a leading tax lawyer by Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers and was named in the Tax section as an "Illinois Super Lawyer" in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Representative transactions include: Represents lenders and issuers in cross-border finance structures Represents sponsors of unit investment trusts and regulated investment companies Securitizations of installment contracts, contract receivables, and student loans Represents lenders in credit tenant leases Represents in-bond investment funds on U.S. withholding issues Represents acquirers and targets in taxable and tax-free business acquisitions Structures acquisitions and dispositions of U.S. real property by foreign persons Represents managers and investors in flow-through investment vehicles Advising both for-profit and exempt organizations on structuring joint ventures and management relationships to avoid excess benefit transactions Recent Presentations Leasing and Tax-Exempt and Foreign Entities, Lorman Educational Services National Teleconference on January 30, 2008(panel participant) "Canada and U.S. | 