International Business

Experience

International

Represented U.S. companies and foreign-owned companies with U.S. subsidiaries with respect to U.S. export controls, Commerce Department regulations, and Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations.

Represented British software and technology companies for U.S. licenses and agreements, tax, employment, immigration, entity formation, leasing and related matters.

Represented U.S. companies with respect to distribution agreements for countries in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia.

Represented private manufacturer of paint applicators in German joint venture.

Permanent Establishment, Transfer Pricing, International Tax, Tax Treaty Analysis and Personal International Income Tax

Our firm represented several large private European companies seeking US subsidiaries/entities with respect to Permanent Establishment, Transfer Pricing, International Tax, Tax Treaty Analysis and Personal International Income Tax issues. We provided speedy and efficient resolution stemming from years of experience related to similar issues and projects.

Information Technology Outsource (ITO)

We represented our client, a NYSE manufacturing company, in outsourcing its IT Department to Hewlett Packard with India Component. Because of significant past outsourcing experience, we simplified and streamlined a very complex transaction.

Cross-Border Acquisition

Dinsmore & Shohl recently represented CollabNet, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company that is the recognized leader in Agile lifecycle management in the Cloud, in its acquisition of Codesion, Inc. (formerly CVS Dude) in a multi-step cross-border merger and reorganization transaction. Codesion is an Australian-based company that provides the world’s leading enterprise-grade Subversion hosting platform and serves more than 3,400 customers and 70,000 users in 90 countries. CollabNet founded the industry-leading Subversion open source project in 2000 and remains the project’s principal sponsor. The CollabNet TeamForge ALM platform, CollabNet Subversion software configuration management (SCM) solution, and ScrumWorks® project and program management software enable teams using any environment, methodology, and technology to increase productivity by up to 50% and to reduce the cost of software development by up to 80%.

Internal Reorganization

Represented a U.S. company with complex U.S., Canadian and Swiss corporate structure in reorganizing as necessary to preserve U.S. tax benefits from pre-Chapter 11 losses.