The document discusses EY's transaction tax advisory services. It provides an overview of the types of services offered, including advising on buy-side and sell-side transactions, business restructuring, capital markets transactions, and more. The services aim to help clients understand tax implications, identify opportunities to improve tax efficiency and returns, and navigate tax issues throughout the capital planning lifecycle in a strategic manner.

1. Transaction Tax
Thinking ahead

2. The Capital Agenda
A strong Capital Agenda must be the core of all strategic boardroom decisions.
It is the framework for all the questions you ask and services we offer.
Raising: How do we win the competition for scarce capital?
Investing: How do we seize growth opportunities that others may be unable to?
Optimizing: How do we increase and maintain investor confidence?
Preserving: How do we better anticipate and adapt to
market conditions as they change?
Wherever your transaction occurs, our integrated,
global approach means you gain access to
coordinated advice …
… from our strategic tax professionals who think
ahead and understand the external factors that impact
your business.
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We guide you through the tax implications of your transaction
and help you develop alternatives to improve your company’s
tax efficiency.
Buy-side transactions
• Provide you with an understanding of the relevant
jurisdictional and multidisciplinary tax issues
• Offer structuring advice and alternatives to balance
investor sensitivities and help you improve prospective
earnings or cash flows
• Highlight opportunities for improved operational
efficiencies and returns on your investment
• Help you understand and navigate tax opportunities and
risk in emerging markets
• Analyze and review your historical transactions and
financing structures for reputational risk
Divestiture advisory services (sell-side
transactions)
• Help you recognize and address tax issues early in the
process to enable you to prepare for and resolve matters
in a way that helps increase returns for shareholders
• Evaluate alternative transaction structures with you in
advance
• Help you understand whether and how the use of
existing or embedded tax assets best positions you for a
successful exit
• Identify the gain or loss in each taxing jurisdiction to
assist you in determining what valuable tax attributes
may be utilized
We advise you in designing, coordinating and
implementing restructuring transactions that balance your
tax priorities with your overall business objectives.
Business restructuring (internal
restructuring, intercompany account
rationalization, legal entity rationalization)
• Help you understand the tax impact associated with
realigning legal and operating structures
• Identify ways to improve performance and strengthen
your business by preserving and optimizing capital
• Help you eliminate unnecessary above- and below-the-
line operating and tax costs and inefficiencies
• Assist your efforts to realize the value of tax assets
(such as a built-in loss or stock basis)
Distressed company restructuring
• Provide planning options for bankruptcy and liquidation
• Validate, and help you select and implement the
appropriate exit option for non-core activities
We collaborate with your tax, treasury and legal
departments, as well as the C-suite, to understand your
global capital and tax structure to help:
• Implement an efficient tax capital structure and
collateral package
• Analyze and structure the tax aspects of new financings
and refinancings to leverage opportunities and reduce
the overall cost of capital
• Determine the timing of unamortized debt cost
deductions
• Provide an understanding of debt push-down techniques
• Determine the deductibility of interest
• Avoid cross-border issues (such as currency control,
withholding taxes or repatriation)
Thinking ahead: strategic tax advice throughout the capital
and organizational life cycles
Seeing your business the way you do lets us help your company achieve long-term
success by:
Thinking forward to anticipate your needs
Thinking broadly about your business strategy
Thinking beyond the transaction
By thinking ahead and understanding your organization, our Transaction Tax
professionals help you navigate an ever-changing business environment and
make informed decisions that align with your long-term strategy.
• Is your tax strategy aligned with your
overall business strategy?
• Are you thinking about tax strategically
and early enough in the decision-making
process?
• Have you included tax planning as
part of your strategy for acquisitions,
divestments or capital market
transactions?
• Have you thought beyond the transaction
to understand if the integrity of the
structure will be sustained?
• Do you have the appropriate tax
structures in place that will help you
achieve your business objectives?
• Have you considered the potential
reputation risk of your tax structures?

3. • We are proactive. Our deep technical and industry experience enables
us to think broadly and deliver tax advice that aligns with your business
strategy. We team with you to co-develop tax planning strategies that go
beyond the immediate transaction and help you make informed decisions.
• We are practical. By understanding the issues and trends that impact
your overall business strategy and thinking forward to provide practical tax
recommendations, we help you achieve your vision.
• We are insightful. By combining our technical knowledge with innovative
and progressive thinking, we provide you with a point of view on the tax
issues that matter most to your business.
• We are focused. Our global teams of tax professionals are exclusively
dedicated to advising companies in the transactional setting. This enables
us to focus our attention on your transaction and provide you with a
deeper, more strategic transactional experience.
• We think ahead.
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About EY
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services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and
confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We
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About EY’s Transaction Advisory Services
How you manage your capital agenda today will define your
competitive position tomorrow. We work with clients to create social
and economic value by helping them make better, more informed
decisions about strategically managing capital and transactions in fast-
changing markets. Whether you’re preserving, optimizing, raising or
investing capital, EY’s Transaction Advisory Services combine a unique
set of skills, insight and experience to deliver focused advice. We
help you drive competitive advantage and increased returns through
improved decisions across all aspects of your capital agenda.
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Please refer to your advisors for specific advice.
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Sergio Caveggia
Partner
+54 11 4515 2651
sergio.caveggia@ar.ey.com
Marina Kulik
Tax Senior Manager
+54 11 4510 2350
marina.kulik@ar.ey.com
Flavia Cimalandro
Tax Senior Manager
+54 11 4318 1597
flavia.cimalando@ar.ey.com
Guadalupe Garcia
Tax Manager
+54 11 4318 1590
guadalupe.garcia-ba@ar.ey.com
Maria Florencia Ranieri
Tax Manager
+54 11 4875 4723
maria-florencia.ranieri@ar.ey.com
Vanina Manteiga
Social Security Manager
+54 11 4515 2641
vanina.manteiga@ar.ey.com
Laura Escande
Social Security Manager
+54 11 4875 4720
Laura.Escande@ar.ey.com
For a conversation about your transaction
tax strategy, please contact us
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