Overview
Kristen E. Hazel has extensive experience representing clients in US and international aspects of federal tax matters, including international acquisitions and divestitures, international joint ventures, and capital plan design and implementation, including tax planning with respect to intellectual property. Her work includes both inbound and outbound transactions.
Kristen is the co-head of the Firm’s Captive Insurance Affinity Group. She regularly counsels clients with respect to the tax aspects of organizing, operating and defending captive insurance companies. She is head of the Firm’s New Business Committee and is a member of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility Committee.
Kristen frequently speaks on captive insurance, domestic and international tax topics for various professional organizations.
Kristen is a co-founder of Tax in the City: A Woman’s Tax Roundtable®, which consists of women tax professionals with an interest in discussing substantive tax issues in a collegial and confidential setting, and which meets regularly in Chicago and New York
Results
- Represented a US-based company in connection with a $1.4 billion global acquisition of a consumer products business
- Represented a non-US-based company in connection with multiple facets of two significant spin-off transactions
- Represented a closely held, US-based company with respect to its acquisition of a complementary US business line
- Represented numerous clients in connection with structuring long-term alliances and navigating complex partnership tax rules
- Represented US based and non-US based companies in connection with capital planning, investment structure and repatriation alternatives
Recognitions
- Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, Chicago, 2023-2025
- International Tax Review, World Tax, 2016-2025
- Legal 500 USA, 2017
Community
- American Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association, past chair of the Federal Tax Committee’s International Tax Subcommittee
- Founding member of the Firm’s study group for women tax professionals, Tax in the City®
Credentials
Education
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, JD, 1988
Wayne State University, BA, 1985
Admissions
Illinois
