Michael Silva Email & Phone Number

Michael Silva focuses his practice on international tax law, with emphasis on US investment structures, cross-border tax issues, tax treaty planning, withholding obligations of US real property investments and US activities of foreign banks. As a part of his practice, Michael: • Advises on investment structures and funds to invest in US real estate projects • Assists multinational corporations seeking to establish a business presence in the US • Assists international banks on US loans and other US activities • Advises foreign clients on the US income, estate and gift tax consequences of alternative inbound investment structures while utilizing income, estate and gift tax treaties to minimize tax and regulatory burdens • Establishes foreign trusts, corporations and advises clients on gratuitous transfers of wealth, including the US reporting requirements imposed on foreign trusts with US beneficiaries • Advises on all aspects of withholding obligations on dispositions of US real property interests • Represents estates of foreign and domestic decedents with property located in multiple jurisdictions • Represents financial institutions in connection with payment made to nonresident aliens and beneficiaries of nonresident alien decedents • Advises on domestic wills, trusts and other testamentary documents, including charitable, personal residence and qualified domestic trusts

Listed skills include Tax Law, International Tax, Corporate Law, Tax, and 13 others.