Goldman, Joseph A.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Joe Goldman represents clients on a wide range of international and domestic tax matters, with a principal focus on structuring, negotiating, and documenting mergers and acquisitions, post-acquisition integration of global businesses, internal restructurings, and intellectual property licensing and planning, as well as related disputes with the IRS.

Joe spends a significant amount of time on the cross-border aspects of federal and international taxation. He works with clients on restructuring their businesses to maximize tax efficiency by developing specialized planning for foreign tax credits, subpart F, transfer pricing, and profit repatriation. Joe works closely with clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, electronics, manufacturing, spirits, services, and automotive industries and adheres to aggressive timetables to maximize client business opportunities. Representative clients include Celgene, Dow Corning, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Patron Spirits, Pfizer, and Timken.

Joe is a member of the American Bar Association (Taxation Section), the District of Columbia Bar, and the New York State Bar Association. He has lectured at conferences on numerous topics involving federal and international taxation. Recently, he lectured on the intersection between tax and intellectual property.

Areas of Practice

• Tax
• International/Cross-Border Planning & Transactions
• Mergers & Acquisitions/Tax
• Transfer Pricing
• Private Equity/Tax
• Structured Finance/Tax
• Tax Audits & Controversies

Representative Cases

• Celgene announces $2.9 billion acquisition of Pharmion
• Celgene Corporation acquires API Manufacturing Facility in Europe , (2009)
• Celgene Corporation is involved in global tax planning , (2009)
• Celgene to buy Gloucester Pharmaceuticals for $640 million to bolster its anticancer drug pipeline
• Edison Mission Energy sells $3.9 billion international power generation portfolio to consortium
• Edison Mission Energy sells interest in Contact Energy to Origin Energy for $1 billion
• Pfizer acquires Angiosyn, a biopharmaceutical company
• Pfizer acquires Bioren Inc
• Pfizer acquires Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. for a total value of $164 million
• Pfizer acquires consumer brand Purell
• Pfizer acquires CovX Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company
• Pfizer acquires Encysive Pharmaceuticals Inc
• Pfizer acquires Idun
• Pfizer acquires Meridica in $125 million acquisition
• Pfizer acquires PowderMed
• Pfizer acquires Rinat Neuroscience
• Pfizer acquires Serenex, Inc
• Pfizer acquires Vicuron Pharmaceuticals for $1.9 billion
• Pfizer Inc. acquires CatapultGenetics, Pty., Ltd. and Bovigen, LLC
• Pfizer reaches agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim to divest animal health assets in connection with regulatory approval process
• Pfizer sells Adams confectionery business to Cadbury Schweppes
• Pfizer sells consumer healthcare business to Johnson & Johnson for $16.6 billion , (2009)
• Pfizer sells in-vitro allergy and autoimmune diagnostic testing business to Triton for $575 million
• Pfizer sells Italian generics business to Teva Pharmaceutical
• Pfizer sells Schick-Wilkinson Sword shaving products business to Energizer Holdings for $930 million
• Pfizer sells surgical ophthalmology business for $450 million to Advanced Medical Optics
• Pfizer sells Tetra aquarium and pond supplies business to Triton for $240 million
• Sumitomo Bakelite acquires Vyncolit , (2009)
• The Timken Company structures global employees' stock purchase and stock option plans
• Timken Company acquires Bearing Inspection , (2009)
• Timken company acquires The Purdy Corp. , (2009)
• Timken Company acquires Torrington Division of Ingersoll-Rand Company , (2009)
• Timken Company sells 100% stock to Henry Schein, Inc. , (2009)
• Timken Company sells stake in NSK Torrington Co.
• Timken sells 100% of Kilian stock to Genstar Capital , (2009)
• Timken sells 100% of stock of Timken S.P.A. and Timken Deutschland to LMS , (2009)
• Timken sells airframe business to Roller Bearing of America, Inc. , (2009)
• Timken sells Latrobe Steel , (2009)
• Timken signs agreement to sell needle roller bearings business to JTEKT , (2009)
• Verint Systems acquires Witness Systems for $950 million
• Verity Instruments acquires IP for semiconductor manufacturing

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Corporate Taxation, Estate & Gift Taxation, Excise Taxes, Income Taxation, International Law, International Taxation, International Taxation, International Transactions, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Payroll Taxes, Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes, Sales & Use Taxes, Taxation Law

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York

Education

• Columbia University - New York
• New York University
• Yeshiva University

Published Works

• Group Taxation in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 2002

Address

51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-2113

Phones

1.202.879.5437 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.202.626.1700 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.jonesday.com