Sidley Austin LLP

Sidley Austin LLP’s offering consists of a vast array of innovative financial products, such as CLOs, securitized offerings, linked notes, and other structured products assisting a diverse range of clients including investment banks, corporates, and asset managers. The tax team works in tandem with the capital markets practice also providing advice across debt, equity and equity-linked capital markets products. The team is jointly led by Palo Alto based Rachel Kleinberg, New York based Robert Kreitman and Chicago based Bridget O’Neill. Kreitman’s key areas of expertise include residential and commercial mortgage-backed securitization, as well as asset-backed securitization, structured finance and a wide range of capital markets transactions while Kleinberg handles matters concerning federal tax aspects of transactional matters such as M&A, joint ventures, spinoffs and reorganizations. Richard Silverman who sits in the Chicago office, has considerable knowledge of both federal and state tax matters and assists clients with structured finance and securitization transactions, as well as bankruptcy and restructuring matters.