Shane Nix, a partner in the Tax Department, counsels companies and individuals on various business transactions, with an emphasis on transactional tax matters relating to the acquisition, disposition, and restructuring of businesses, corporations, and partnerships. Shane has a broad range of experience in corporate, international, and partnership taxation. He advises clients in many different industries, including technology, real estate, hospitality, media, and entertainment, with significant experience advising actors, actresses, musicians, producers, directors, and financers on a wide range of individual, corporate, and partnership tax issues specific to the entertainment industry. Shane also has significant experience advising executives in connection with equity compensation matters.
Shane also brings experience from previously serving as the Vice Chair of the Entertainment Tax Group at an Am Law 100 law firm, practicing law at a global law firm in Silicon Valley, where he represented both sell-side and buy-side clients in M&A transactions and advised technology and media companies with respect to choice of entity formation and various tax matters. He also brings experience from a global accounting firm where he structured domestic and cross border M&A transactions for public companies and private equity firms.