Lowell D Yoder

Practice Areas

Lowell D. Yoder focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global tax planning and international tax controversies, representing high-tech, pharmaceutical, e-commerce, financial, consumer and industrial companies. He advises on tax-efficient structuring of cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures, as well as tax-beneficial planning for intangible holding companies, global supply chains and multi-jurisdictional service arrangements. Lowell also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), handling audits and obtaining tax rulings. He works with an extensive network of lawyers worldwide, developing tax-favorable transactional and operational cross-border structures. Lowell previously served as the global head of the Firm’s Tax Practice.

Lowell has spoken on a variety of international topics before numerous professional organizations. He is the editor in chief of CCH’s International Tax Journal, and has authored and published numerous articles and treatises on international topics. Lowell was an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught advanced international taxation.

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Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, chair of the Subcommittee for Controlled Foreign Corporations, PFICs and Contract Manufacturing, and of the Committee on Foreign Activities of US Tax Payers

American College of Tax Counsel, fellow

GWU/IRS Annual Institute on International Taxation, member of the advisory board

International Fiscal Association, USA Branch Counsel

Practising Law Institute, chair of the International Tax Issues Conference in Chicago

Personal

Education:

University of Illinois College of Law, JD, magna cum laude, 1982

University of Illinois at Chicago, BS, highest distinction, 1979

Work Highlights

Advising Joh. A. Benckiser on a tax-efficient acquisition structure for the purchase of a $12.5 billion global business, and developing tax-beneficial post-acquisition integration structures

Advising a client on structuring the global ownership of high-value intangibles, minimizing foreign and US tax codes

Representing before the IRS two multinational companies in connection with hundreds of millions of dollars of proposed tax adjustments with respect to business operations conducted outside the United States