Edwin Norris

Practice Areas

ED NORRIS practices primarily in the area of federal business taxation, focusing on the planning and implementation of complicated, tax-intensive transactions. He has extensive experience in resolving the complex tax issues presented by large business transactions, especially acquisitions, joint ventures, and financing transactions relating to the motion picture, technology, life sciences, real estate, financial services, and energy industries.

Ed has been heavily involved in inbound and outbound international transactions for more than 40 years. For over 30 years, he has advised a major motion picture studio in connection with a variety of domestic and international joint ventures, film financing transactions, acquisitions, and dispositions. Ed has been the studio’s outside counsel principally responsible for the design and implementation of a complex international joint venture for the production and distribution of more than US$7 billion of theatrical motion pictures. Ed also advises numerous other clients in the entertainment, media, and sports fields regarding complex international and domestic tax issues.