Michael Melrose, Author at Global Compliance News

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Michael D. Melrose is a member of the Firm's tax and wealth management groups. Michael frequently advises high net worth US and foreign individuals, family offices, trust companies as well as US and foreign-based multinational corporations in relation to a variety of US and cross-border business related issues and international tax, trust, and succession planning issues.

In Corporate Compliance

Private Wealth Newsletter – First Quarter 2021

Welcome to our first quarter issue of the Private Wealth Newsletter. Our featured insight for this issue is a discussion of the passage of the Corporate Transparency Act by the United States to introduce federally-mandated beneficial ownership reporting obligations for US corporations and limited liability companies. We also include insights…

In Employment

United States: Final regulations issued on new TCJA rules for S Corps converting to C Corps

December 30, 2020 by Michael Melrose 1 Min Read

As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), P.L. 115-97 and with the lowering of the corporate income tax rate to 21% (along with other changes), Congress anticipated that many S corporations would consider converting to C corporations.

In North America

United States: Wealth Management Webinar Series – November Session

December 9, 2020 by David Berek, Michael Melrose, Spencer Guillory, Beth Kerwin and Paul O'Quinn 1 Min Read

The Baker McKenzie Global Wealth Management Subpractice Group is presenting a series of short webinars to keep members of the community abreast of recent developments in these uncertain times. On 10 November 2020, the topics focused on during the webinar were “Giving it away piece by piece: an update and discussion on conservation easement deductions from planning and controversy perspectives” and “US domestic planning opportunities amidst crisis”.