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  1. Pournaghshband Shahab
New York

Shahab Pournaghshband

Associate
shahab.pournaghshband@freshfields.com
New York: +1 212 277 4000
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Shahab is an associate in our Tax practice. His work includes counseling clients during mergers and acquisitions, financings, debt, equity, derivative offerings, and spin-offs, among others.

Shahab is also a native Persian speaker.

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  • Juniper Networks, Inc., on its $14 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
  • Western Digital Corporation, on the separation of its HDD and flash businesses to create two independent, public companies
  • Intel Corporation on the pending sale of a 51% stake in Altera Corporation to Silver Lake
  • onsemi on its $115 million acquisition of Qorvo’s silicon carbide business
  • Scout Clean Energy on the debt financing and ongoing tax equity financing of its Nimbus wind facility in Carroll County, Arkansas
  • Sellers and buyers of federal tax credits pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
  • JX Advanced Metals on its $2.97 billion initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company on its issuance of $2.1 billion of 6.1% step-up callable subordinated notes due 2055
  • Sanrio Company, Ltd., the owner of Hello Kitty and designer and developer of other characters and entertainment products, on its $864 million secondary offering of common stock
  • Antalpha Platform Holding Company on its approximately $50 million initial public offering of ordinary shares on the Nasdaq Global Market
  • Medco Energi on its tender offer for senior notes due over two years
  • Amgen Inc. & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner (U.S. Tax Court). Transfer pricing case concerning the licensing of complex biopharmaceutical products from the U.S. to Amgen’s Puerto Rican subsidiary. The matter involves approximately $8.7 billion of tax plus interest and $2 billion in penalties

*Includes experience from prior firm.

Shahab Pournaghshband

Associate
shahab.pournaghshband@freshfields.com

T +1 212 277 4000

New York Office

3 World Trade Center

175 Greenwich Street, 51st Floor

New York 10007
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