ANTHONY J. CARBONE
Partner
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Tony Carbone is deputy chair of the Corporate Area and a partner in the Tax Group where he maintains a practice emphasizing tax planning strategies and tax consequences of business and investment transactions. He advises clients on all forms of leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganizations. His experience includes representation of deal sponsors, investment banks, commercial banks, hedge funds, as well as private equity, venture capital, real estate and other funds (foreign and domestic), acquiring and target companies, and management groups.
Tony also handles federal, state and local tax controversies involving both administration proceedings and litigation in federal and state courts. His controversy experience includes worthless security cases, applicability of sales tax and utility taxes in New York state, taxability of a covenant not to compete and numerous domicile issues. Tony has also been involved in a number of cases challenging the applicability and/or constitutionality of certain New York state and city tax provisions and has successfully had such proceedings transferred from the State Tax Administration Tribunal to the New York state courts.
Tony has also had extensive experience in the partnership and trust tax areas and in the tax aspects of corporate finance transactions representing both financial institutions and their customers and clients. Tony also advises our offshore clients on the tax aspects of their U.S. and offshore business activities. His experience includes foreign investments in the U.S. and offshore, international joint ventures and international finance transactions.
Education
New York
University School of Law, LL.M., 1985
Syracuse University College of Law, Juris Doctor, 1981
Indiana University, Bachelor of Science, Accounting, 1978
Syracuse University, Master of Science, Accounting, 1981
Practices
The
Corporate Area
Commercial Technology and Trademark
Emerging Growth Companies
Energy
Life Sciences
Mergers and Acquisitions
Real Estate Project Development
Tax
Admissions, Courts and Memberships
Certified Public Accountant
Member, New York State Bar Association (Tax Section)
Member, American Bar Association (Tax Section)
President of the New York Chapter of the Indiana University Kelley School of
Business Alumni Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the
School’s Alumni Organization
Speaking Engagements
Panelist for the 2004 Tax Practices for Private Equity Funds Seminar - "Tax Implications for Investments in Non-US Companies"