K Lawrence Gragg

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Tax

White & Case's highly experienced tax attorneys, working from offices worldwide, can combine their in-depth knowledge to help you manage the tax aspects of your most ambitious and difficult undertakings.

Our Clients

A successful tax practice demands both extensive knowledge of the law and thoughtful innovation in its application. White & Case’s attorneys adhere to the highest standards of service and professionalism. Our client focus has helped us nurture business relationships for more than a century, earning the trust of multinational companies and entrepreneurs alike.

Corporations

White & Case’s tax attorneys work with the world’s largest corporations, including giants in industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, energy and telecommunications. These diverse companies look to us for guidance through the tax laws of many countries, as well as the intricacies of cross-border tax issues.

Individuals and Closely Held Companies

People of high net worth and those owning closely held businesses often face tax issues that are complex and span multiple jurisdictions. Our tax attorneys help these clients manage their worldwide investments and optimize the way they structure and control the entities they own.

Government Entities and Sovereigns

Sovereign nations from every part of the world turn to White & Case for counsel. Our support ranges from restructuring the complex laws of developed nations to building new regulations in emerging markets. Many of these nations look to us to restructure debt or to help them negotiate tax treaties.

Benefit From Our Extensive Tax Experience

White & Case provides clients with the most innovative and effective tax-related legal advice available. We consistently deliver excellent results for our clients by providing innovative, efficient tax solutions. As a full service, global law firm, we help our clients tackle such business challenges as:

* Mergers and Acquisitions:
In both cross-border and single-country deals, our tax attorneys are extensively involved in negotiating a diverse range of business transfers and restructurings. We put our analytical abilities to work to structure tax-free reorganizations – including acquiring, combining, or spinning off entities or businesses – that help our clients close transactions with a minimum of tax liability.

* Financial Products:
With deep experience in the tax aspects of structured financial and other financial products and derivatives transactions, White & Case attorneys are able to help clients – issuers, underwriters, placement agents, investors, and corporate trustees – build the most tax-efficient mechanism for each offering. Our attorneys have successfully led transactions in over 40 countries. They understand the nuances of securities and banking industries around the world. White & Case attorneys develop and review tax-advantaged structures, ensuring that they meet the often-stringent and sometimes inconsistent demands of multiple jurisdictions.

* Partnerships, Joint Ventures, and Investment Funds:
Many of our clients seek to structure their investment and business activities through flow-through vehicles that include partnerships, joint ventures or limited liability companies. Based on a thorough understanding of each business entity with which we work, our attorneys create entities that address multiple tax considerations. We help clients establish business structures such as joint ventures between large corporate entities, start-up ventures among individuals, investment funds for taxable and tax-exempt investors, and offshore centers to achieve tax efficiencies.

* Project, Facility, and Equipment Financings:
Clients who seek to finance single-country and cross-border projects, facilities, or equipment look to White & Case for guidance to ensure maximum financial benefit and optimal tax treatment. These clients may include equity investors, lenders, manufacturers, corporate trustees, lessors, lessees, and brokers. We help clients create partnerships to preserve the economic benefits associated with each participant’s interest, and may build hybrid entities and instruments to minimize tax costs in a multijurisdictional transaction.

* Tax Controversy:
As regulatory burdens become more complex, the potential for tax controversy increases. While our efforts are aimed at avoiding such conflicts through competent advice, detailed contracts, and skillful negotiation, at times the desired outcome can only be obtained in adversarial administrative proceedings or in court. Our highly experienced team often delivers a result that is both quick and beneficial.

* Transfer Pricing:
As a premier provider of transfer pricing advice for transactions between affiliated companies, White & Case helps clients avoid the burdens of double taxation. This work often falls under the auspices of income tax treaties, which requires as much diplomacy as knowledge of tax matters. By leveraging our global network, our attorneys are able to work with both sides in a delicate negotiation simultaneously to bring the parties to common ground swiftly. This concerted effort positions us for success at the earliest possible point, whether the negotiations are unilateral with a single tax authority or bilateral through competent authority proceedings.

Our Global Tax Network

Our tax capability draws from the strength and experience of more than 125 dedicated tax attorneys, whose work is integrated with that of White & Case’s other practice areas to produce a seamless service. By engaging our tax services, clients benefit from the Firm’s legal and business experience, extensive global reach and in-depth local knowledge.

Certified Tax Law Attorney - Florida Bar

K Lawrence Gragg
White & Case LLP
200 S Biscayne Blvd #4900
Miami FL 33131-2310
Tel: 305 371-2700
Fax: 305 358-5744
E-mail: lgragg@whitecase.com

Practices
- Tax
- Mergers and Acquisitions

A board-certified tax lawyer, Mr. Gragg has a transactional domestic and international practice, a significant portion of which is devoted to general business counseling, including business formations, acquisitions and dispositions. He also has an active federal and state tax practice.

Mr. Gragg represents a number of prominent Florida real estate developers, including Stiles Corporation, Codina Group, Crocker Partners, Westbrooke Homes and the Gulf Bay Companies. He has been active in the real estate investment trust area, representing several REITS. He has structured hundreds of real estate ventures.

Mr. Gragg recently advised the Codina Group in its merger transaction with Florida East Coast Industries and the Babcock family in its sale of Babcock Florida Company, the owner of 91,000 acres in Southwest Florida.

Mr, Gragg has consistently been recognized by his peers as a pre-eminent tax attorney and has been repeatedly selected by his peers for inclusion in “The Best Lawyers in America” directory and, again based upon peer recommendation, designated as one of nine Florida tax lawyers to receive the highest Chambers USA rating in 2006 – a distinction he has received since the inception of the Chambers USA ratings in the United States. He also has served as Chairperson of several professional organizations during his career.

With a sub-specialty in the state tax area, Mr. Gragg has advised local and multijurisdictional taxpayers on state taxes and has represented numerous taxpayers in controversies with state tax officials at all levels. He has served as a member of the Tax Advisory Committee to the Finance and Taxation Committee of the Florida House of Representatives and the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights Advisory Committee to the Florida Legislature.

Mr. Gragg taught legal writing and research at the University of Florida College of Law and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law in the University of Miami Law School Graduate Tax Program. He is a frequent lecturer, having lectured for the Florida Bar, New York University and many other continuing legal education programs.