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What to Expect and How to Prepare: A Guide to Employing Foreign Workers in the Age of Trump

Teresa Goody Guillén Supports New SEC Nominee in Institutional Investor Article

Carolina Alonso Shares Her Journey to the Legal Profession with High School Students

​Bill Bergmann Elected Treasurer of Court of Federal Claims Bar Association; Continues Role on Advisory Council

Matt focuses his practice on the federal income tax aspects of a wide range of business transactions, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, fund formation and joint ventures. Matt also has vast experience advising clients on capital markets offerings, real estate transactions and financial products. He has represented such clients as large financial institutions, early-stage companies, real estate investment trusts, tax-exempt entities, captive insurance companies, investment funds and large sovereign wealth funds.

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LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 2010, 

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2010, 

B.S., Commerce, Concentration in Finance, University of Virginia, 2004

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BakerHostetler Team Represents Insurance Management Company in Recent Acquisition

BakerHostetler Represents Verve Services, LLC in Investment by Bishop Street Underwriters

BakerHostetler Offers Six-Part Virtual CLE for In-House Counsel

Matthew Wochok Authors Article for Tax Notes Federal

BakerHostetler Sponsors Tax Executives Institute Seminar

BakerHostetler Bolsters Tax Practice Group with Addition of Partner Matthew Wochok in Washington

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<li>Represented an insurance broker in its sale to an international specialty insurance firm.</li>
<li>Represented a software company in a pre-transaction restructuring and its sale to an education technology company.</li>
<li>Represented a leading B2B enterprise SaaS software investment firm in its acquisition of a health technology company.</li>
<li>Represented a multinational conglomerate in its sale of its asset management business to a global financial services and bank holding company.</li>
<li>Represented an investment management and asset management firm in its acquisition of a controlling stake in a real estate investment firm.</li>
<li>Represented the financial services division of a multinational conglomerate in its sale of a portfolio of aircraft leases, loans and related aircraft to an aircraft financing and sales company.</li>
<li>Represented numerous private equity funds in various acquisitions and divestitures.</li>
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Matthew P. Wochok

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<li>Author, &#8220;&#8216;Mere Change&#8217;: No One Knows What It Means, but It&#8217;s Provocative,&#8221; <em>Tax Notes Federal</em> (December 11, 2023).</li>
<li>Author, &#8220;Life Insurance Premiums and Outside Basis: The Untold Story,&#8221; <em>Tax Notes Federal</em> (August 15, 2022).</li>
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