SRZ promotes Noah Beck to tax partner

SRZ has announced the election of Noah D. Beck as partner.

Noah’s practice focuses on tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, restructurings and workouts, and private equity fund formation issues. He has advised on complex transactions including the recent public acquisition of Safeway Inc. by Albertsons and a consortium led by Cerberus Capital Management LP; the acquisition by Cerberus of the automotive interiors business of Visteon Corporation; Tiptree Financial Inc.’s sale of subsidiary Philadelphia Financial Group Inc. to funds managed by the Tactical Opportunities Group of The Blackstone Group LP; and the agreement by Cerberus Capital Management, its affiliate The Traxis Group BV and Blue Bird Corporation to sell all of the outstanding capital stock of School Bus Holdings Inc., an indirect parent company of Blue Bird, to Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. Prior to joining SRZ, Noah practiced at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he represented private equity funds, including Blackstone and KKR, in a variety of transactional and fund-related matters.

A member of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association, Noah is recognized as a leading lawyer by The Legal 500 United States and as a Rising Star, from 2012 to 2014, by New York Super Lawyers. He is the co-author of “The Demise of CoCos and the Tax Consequences of Exchanging Convertible Debt” (Practising Law Institute, Corporate Tax Practice Series). Noah earned an LL.M. and a J.D., cum laude, from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Robert McKay Scholar and a staff editor for the Annual Survey of American Law. He holds a B.A., cum laude, from Duke University, where he made the Dean’s List with Distinction.