Corporate Trends Worth Considering

Seven Key Trends

1. The trends discussed below involve many aspects of corporate activity. Picking just seven of particular note, we highlight the following:
2. Increased IRS attention to foreign corporate transactions and in particular corporate structures created to minimize the anticompetitive effects of worldwide taxation;
3. Onerous litigation costs including particularly electronic discovery for smaller companies and matters for all companies which cannot support a large legal budget;
4. The effort to curb overregulation of business in an “election year”;
5. The increased attention to foreign investment in U.S. real property;
6. The importance of providing more business work permits for skilled foreign workers and students;
7. The growing importance of cyber security in the face of organized worldwide threats; and
8. The increased attention to work life balance issues in a competitive marketplace for talent

Corporate Inversions and Taxation

Inversions and other efforts to minimize the very high rate of U.S. corporate taxation are easy political populist targets: Rich corporate interest trying to get richer, while ordinary workers have their taxes withheld each pay period.