Zvi Hahn joins Katten Muchin Rosenman in NY Tax Planning Practice

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that Zvi Hahn has joined the firm as a New York-based partner in the Tax Planning Practice. Mr. Hahn joins Katten from the New York office of Butzel Long, where he was a shareholder and co-chaired the firm’s Tax Law and Israel Practices.

Mr. Hahn has a broad tax practice covering international tax planning for U.S. and foreign corporations and individuals, international financing and derivative transactions, financial instruments, Subpart F and PFIC issues and U.S. real estate investments. He has advised multinational groups with respect to the structuring and restructuring of their international operations, as well as on their cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and financing transactions. Mr. Hahn has also counseled numerous investment funds and hedge funds in connection with various tax matters relating to their formation, operations and investment and trading activities. He has significant experience representing high net worth individuals and families with respect to international tax planning, including issues regarding their immigration to, or expatriation from, the United States.

Mr. Hahn is an adjunct professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he has taught a course on International Tax since 2003. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Taxation of Business Entities.

Mr. Hahn earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University School of Social Sciences in Tel Aviv, Israel. He received an LL.B., magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University School of Law, and both a J.S.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Katten’s tax practice encompasses tax planning in connection with mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-offs, venture capital and LBO transactions and funds, financings, hedge and other funds, management compensation, real estate transactions, securitizations of debt, equipment leasing and other specialized areas. The firm regularly counsels foreign clients regarding the tax aspects of their U.S. operations and investments and advises U.S. clients on the implications of foreign expansion and activities. Its tax attorneys structure business transactions with careful, creative attention to the resulting tax consequences.