Practice Areas

DeForest has a team of specialists who advise multinational companies and foreign investors on legal issues impacting their global business strategies.

Our team helps structure investments and business operations in such a way as to take full advantage of the opportunities arising by doing business in the United States. 

Our team develops solutions to help clients overcome the strategic, operational, and compliance challenges they face in the United States in relation to corporate management, mergers and acquisitions, labor and immigration issues, real estate, and taxes.

Our transnational business operations practice area focuses on complex tax, immigration, and corporate matters in the United States, implementing our global perspective and collaborative approach to provide practical and innovative legal advice on a wide range of transactions.

The following are our main services:

• • Transnational transactions.
  • Corporate structures and finance.
  • Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
  • Reporting of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR).
  • Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA).
  • Global structuring and integration.
  • Real estate investment and planning.
  • Tax planning and disputes.
  • Technology and communications.
  • Transportation.
  • Estate planning and preservation.
  • Incorporation of different types of companies.
  • Obtaining different types of visas.
  • Among others.