Cross-Border Transactions
For Inbound trade and investment, we advise foreign entrepreneurs and companies in establishing U.S. subsidiaries, by new entity formation, acquisition or merger. We structure, draft and document the U.S. transactions necessary to get these companies off the ground and continue to advise them on their U.S. operations. We have served clients in Europe, South America, India and China, with many clients in the United Kingdom, and as a French-speaking law firm, in France. For Outbound, we advise on U.S. legal and tax issues for American companies acquiring, establishing or investing in non-U.S. businesses.
When necessary and always in agreement with clients, Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. collaborates with other professionals, including foreign law firms, consultants, accountants and other specialists to help our clients understand U.S. local rules in their own framework and to adapt to foreign local rules. Our collaborators are aligned with our philosophy of personal attention, responsiveness and client commitment.
American Regulation of Foreign Investors and Companies
- Taxation: intercompany commercial, financial, technology and services transactions and related transfer pricing; permanent establishment; tax jurisdiction; holding company structure
- Employment; foreign citizen employees; U.S. employment law
- U.S. branding and trademarks
- E-business with U.S. customers
American Regulation of U.S. Trade with Foreigners
- Contracting with foreign businesses
- Controlled Foreign Corporations
- Importation of foreign goods or services
- Product safety
- Export sales and technology transfers
- Licensed exportation of technologies
- Extraterritorial application of U.S. laws to exporters, suppliers and service providers
Inversions, Flips, Rollups, Platforms, Consolidations
- Converting foreign corporations into subsidiaries of new U.S. corporations in order to gain access to U.S. funding sources and strategic partners
- Creation of new holding companies and putting existing operating companies under a single global unaffiliated umbrella for global brands and efficiencies in supply chains and enterprise administration
- Establishing a platform company for self-rollup of regional business entities under a new global brand