Mark Stone practices in the area of corporate, international and real estate taxation and has considerable experience in the representation of non-U.S. companies. He has represented clients from Europe and Japan in a variety of tax matters, including acting as lead U.S. tax counsel for the purchaser in the reportedly largest acquisition at the time by a Japanese company outside of Japan and acquisitions in the U.S. by a leading telecommunications company and other publicly held European enterprises. In addition to international corporate tax matters, he is well versed in the withholding and partnership tax aspects of cross-border licenses and joint ventures. In the domestic setting, Mr. Stone has represented complex real estate partnership/LLCs in tax matters arising out of refinancing of hotels and office buildings and restructuring of the underlying ownership interests. He also advises on domestic and international tax aspects of fund formation and investments and complex "section 467" leases.
Mr. Stone is president of the International Tax Institute, Inc., chair of the Federal Taxation of Real Estate Committee of the American Bar Association's Real Property Section (2011-2012) and past chair of the New York City Bar Committee on Taxation of Business Entities (2005-2008), where he led the committee to national prominence through the issuance of well-respected reports to Treasury, Congress and the OECD. He frequently speaks on international tax and real estate tax issues at the ABA and other forums.