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Richard Schaul-Yoder
Partner
Boston
Richard Schaul-Yoder has practiced tax law in Boston since 1985 and is the former chair of the Taxation Department at Foley Hoag. His practice emphasizes tax planning for corporate transactions, investment funds, and financial products. In the corporate area, Rick has particular expertise in structuring tax-free and taxable mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and similar transactions. In the investment fund area, he provides tax planning for onshore and offshore hedge and private equity funds and their managers, including master-feeder and multi-class partnership structure to accommodate the varying tax profiles of U.S., foreign, and tax-exempt investors. Rick's experience in the financial products area includes conventional financing arrangements as well as the use of derivative products to achieve particular results for both U.S. and foreign clients.
Rick is a frequent speaker at conferences in New York, Boston, Washington and other venues. He is a member of the International Fiscal Association and the International Bar Association, and the American Bar Association, where he formerly served as Chairman or Co-Chairman of the Subcommittees on International Flow-Through Entities, Tax Simplification and Compliance, and Important Developments, of the Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties.
Before joining Foley Hoag, Rick was associated with the Boston tax practice of another national law firm.
Bars and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
U.S. Tax Court
professional / civic involvement
American Bar Association Tax Section, Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties
Subcommittee on Tax Simplification and Compliance, Co-Chairman
Subcommittee on International Flow-Through Entitites, Former Co-Chairman
Subcommittee on Important Developments, Former Chairman
International Fiscal Association
International Bar Association, Subcommittee N (Taxes)
publications
Win Some, Lose Some: New tax act takes billions and returns billions to American business, LEGAL TIMES Volume XXVII No. 43 (October 25, 2004)
Various Hedge Fund Tax Topics, Financial Research Association Conferences (New York: 2003-current)
Exchangeable Share Acquisitions: Cross-Border Tax Planning, Boston Bar Association (2003)
So Now That You've Inverted: Tax Results of International Corporate Inversion Transactions, American Bar Association Tax Section (October 2002)
Corporate Acquisitions Involving Limited Liability Companies, Federal Tax Institute of New England (November 2002)
Federal and Massachusetts Tax Strategies for Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructurings, Massachusetts Bar Association (2001)
Two Case Studies on Tax Problems and Opportunities in Recent Acquisitions Involving S Corporations, Boston Bar Association (1998)
Tax Considerations for a Prospective Seller of a Small Business, Small Business Association of New England (1998).
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