Akin Gump Adds Strength in Tax Offering with Addition of Funds Practitioners Tim Becker and Wells Miller
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New York – October 25, 2022 – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is pleased to announce that Tim Becker and Wells Miller have joined the firm in Boston as partners in its tax practice. Becker, a former Akin Gump tax partner who rejoined the firm on September 6, 2022, and Miller add deep experience advising funds clients on a wide range of issues. Becker and Miller come to the firm from Boston-based Choate Hall & Stewart LLP.
“Tim and Wells are phenomenal practitioners who focus on the private equity and funds space and are able to operate seamlessly across Akin Gump’s practices in tax, financial restructuring, funds, investigations and regulatory,” said firm chair Kim Koopersmith. “We are delighted to welcome them both to the firm and are excited about the value they bring to the firm’s clients.”
Becker, a nationally recognized lawyer with deep roots in Boston’s business community, has a broad transactional and advisory practice providing tax, structuring and other related legal and business advice to a wide variety of clients, particularly in the investment funds industry. He has more than 20 years of experience advising leading private equity funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds on U.S. and international tax and structuring issues relating to fund formation, operations and investments, including U.S. tax issues arising from inbound and outbound investments by funds. He also advises buyers, sellers and target companies in private equity mergers and acquisitions and other domestic and cross-border transactions.
Miller, a tax attorney focusing on executive compensation, brings more than a decade of experience working with private equity firms, private companies and executives to structure and implement effective and tax-efficient compensation and benefit plans in compliance with ERISA and other applicable regulations. He regularly advises fund clients on all matters relating to executive compensation, including designing, drafting, negotiating and implementing non-qualified deferred compensation plans, equity and equity-based incentive compensation arrangements, severance, change in control and executive employment agreements, particularly in the context of mergers and acquisitions.
“Akin Gump is an ideal platform for our clients,” said Becker. “We are excited to continue serving the investment management industry with the support of the firm’s deep special situations, private equity M&A, funds and tax capabilities, all of which are in high demand in the Boston market.”
About Akin Gump’s Tax Practice
Every decision a business makes—from choice of entity through daily operations to ultimate dissolution—has complex and critical tax implications. By providing experienced guidance to help limit liability through sound planning, meticulous preparation and creative solutions to tax challenges, Akin Gump supports clients in making the right decisions and planning for the future. Our global team of recognized leaders helps guide clients through even their most daunting circumstances. Our tax team offers multidisciplinary services to ensure that no consideration is neglected in even the most complex transactions.
About Akin Gump’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice
Akin Gump’s executive compensation and employee benefits team advises investment funds, corporations, financial institutions, individual executives, and individual and corporate trustees of employee benefit plans on matters such as executive compensation agreements, fiduciary responsibility and plan investments, nonqualified deferred compensation agreements and incentive programs. The group also advises clients on the latest legal and legislative developments impacting pay structures. In addition, the group’s lawyers assist with strategies for managing pushes for pay transparency and heightened scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, proxy advisory firms and activist shareholders.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers and advisors in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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