Overview
Damon M. Lyon focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global planning and international controversies for multinational companies. He advises clients on a broad range of tax issues, including tax-efficient structuring of acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures. Damon also provides advice concerning multi-jurisdictional business structures, such as intangible holding companies and finance company structures.
Results
- Representing multinational companies before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in connection with hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed tax adjustments relating to cross-border transfer pricing, foreign tax credit and Subpart F issues
- Advising clients on structuring the global ownership and exploitation of intangibles
- Advising numerous Fortune 50 clients on tax-efficient transactions/structures for accessing and managing excess cash of their foreign subsidiaries
- Working with a client to efficiently integrate the foreign business operations of a newly acquired multinational worth in excess of $15 billion
- Structuring and implementing a multibillion-dollar health care joint venture
- Advising a Fortune 50 client on structuring and reorganizing its global supply chain to achieve low foreign taxes while deferring US taxation
Recognitions
- Legal 500 US, 2016-2024
Credentials
Education
University of Michigan Law School, JD, cum laude, 2000
Michigan State University, BA, with highest honors, 1997
Admissions
Illinois
