REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Cliff’s extensive representative experience includes:
- Representing Kraft as tax counsel in its acquisition of Cadbury, valued at approximately $19 billion (2010).
- Representing Altria as tax counsel in its acquisition of UST, valued at approximately $11.7 billion (2009).
- Representing 3M as tax counsel in its approximately $1.2 billion acquisition of Aearo (2008).
- Representing Altria as tax counsel in Altria’s spin-off of Philip Morris International Inc., one of the largest spin-offs to date, valued at approximately $113 billion (2008).
- Representing Kraft as tax counsel in its approximately $2.6 billion tax-free split-off of its Post cereals business and the merger of the Post cereals business into a subsidiary of Ralcorp Holdings (2008).
- Representing Philip Morris International as tax counsel in its approximately $2 billion acquisition of Rothmans Canada (2008).
- Representing Philip Morris USA as tax counsel in its approximately $2.9 billion acquisition of John Middleton, Inc. (2007).
- Representing Altria as tax counsel in its approximately $50 billion spin-off of Kraft (2007).
- Representing Kraft as tax counsel in its purchase of Group Danone’s global biscuit business for approximately $7.6 billion (2007).
- Representing Philip Morris International as tax counsel in its acquisition of an increased stake in its Mexican tobacco business for approximately $1.1 billion (2007).
- Representing Philip Morris International as tax counsel in its approximately $5 billion acquisition of PT HM Sampoerna Tbk, an Indonesian cigarette company (2005).
- Representing Altria as tax counsel in its approximately $5.6 billion sale of Miller Brewing Company to South African Breweries PLC (2002).
- Representing Altria and Kraft in the acquisition of Nabisco for approximately $15 billion in 2000 and the subsequent offering of more than $8 billion of Kraft stock in 2001 in the second-largest IPO ever undertaken.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Recognized by Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers in the area of international tax (2011)
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of tax: international (2011)
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the area of tax law (2006-2012)
- Recognized by the Washington Business Journal as the Top Washington Lawyer in the area of tax (2009)
- Selected to be included in the Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers
- Recognized by International Tax Review’s World Tax 2009—the comprehensive guide to the world’s leading tax firms
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, Committee on Financial Transactions, American Bar Association
- Former Committee Chairman, Subcommittee on International Financial Transactions, American Bar Association
RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Speaker, "Repatriation: Cash Planning and APB 23: Implications for Provisions and Disclosures," TEI Financial Reporting Seminar (September 24, 2009)
- Speaker, “The Integration Process,” Tax Executives Institute (TEI) Merge Right, Yield Nothing: Practical Solutions to Challenging International M&A Issues (June 20, 2008)
