Matthew McKim focuses his practice on counselling trustees, financial institutions and high-net-worth clients on a wide range of domestic and international tax-planning matters. He regularly counsels clients (generally in the private sector) in structuring complex corporate and business-related transactions. Matt also assists foreign and domestic corporations, partnerships, trusts and wealthy and entrepreneurial individuals in the analysis, structuring and negotiation of tax-efficient business and personal wealth transactions, as well as planning for the creation, preservation and transmission of wealth among generations.

Matt provides innovative solutions for high-net-worth multinationals and their families and counsels clients on the tax implications that arise when cash, property, businesses or transactions cross borders. He regularly counsels clients based in countries throughout the world and leads cross-disciplinary advisory teams in the design, execution and implementation of international strategies, working closely with banking relationship managers, financial planners and domestic and foreign lawyers to tailor solutions for clients' individual needs.

Matt provides guidance to financial institutions (generally located outside the United States) both on the banking side as well as on the trust company side. In that connection, he has been involved in all stages and aspects of the new legislation surrounding the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, generally referred to as FATCA.

Matt has broad experience advising on domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, spinoffs, tax-free reorganizations and fund formations. In this regard, he has represented private and public companies, private equity funds, hedge funds, emerging companies and established entrepreneurs.