Webcast: IPO and Public Company Readiness: Advance Planning for 2025 and 2026 IPOs – Structuring and Tax Issues
Webcasts | March 26, 2025
Please join us for a presentation that delves into the essential considerations for optimizing corporate and capital structures as companies prepare for a successful transition to the public market through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). With a focus on structuring and tax issues, we explore key strategies that can maximize value and enhance long-term performance as a public company.
This presentation is designed to equip legal professionals and corporate stakeholders with the knowledge necessary to navigate the complex legal landscape of structuring and tax issues during the IPO process. Attendees will leave with actionable insights into best practices and emerging legal trends that can facilitate a successful transition to public company status.
MCLE CREDIT INFORMATION:
This program has been approved for credit in accordance with the requirements of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 1.0 credit hour, of which 1.0 credit hour may be applied toward the areas of professional practice requirement. This course is approved for transitional/non-transitional credit.
Attorneys seeking New York credit must obtain an Affirmation Form prior to watching the archived version of this webcast. Please contact CLE@gibsondunn.com to request the MCLE form.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1.0 hour in the General Category.
California attorneys may claim “self-study” credit for viewing the archived version of this webcast. No certificate of attendance is required for California “self-study” credit.
PANELISTS:
Pamela Lawrence Endreny is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a Co-Chair of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Ms. Endreny represents clients in a broad range of U.S. and international tax matters.
Ms. Endreny’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, restructurings and capital markets transactions. She has obtained private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service on tax-free spin-offs and other corporate transactions.
Ms. Endreny earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She is a member of the Massachusetts bar and New York bar.
Jennifer Sabin is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She represents clients in a broad range of domestic and international tax matters, including taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions (public and private), spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, and restructurings. Her practice also includes formation of, and transactions undertaken by, private equity, hedge funds, and asset managers. In addition, Ms. Sabin advises on various aspects of information reporting, including matters relating to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
Jennifer received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2011 from The University of Pennsylvania Law School. She received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in History from Yale University in 2006.
Eric M. Scarazzo is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. He also is a member of the firm’s Public Company Industry Group and Cleantech Industry Group. The broad range of clients that Mr. Scarazzo represents includes issuers and underwriters, public, private, and private equity portfolio companies, and businesses from development-stage to blue chip. Clients span the geographic spectrum from U.S.-based to foreign and multinational.
Mr. Scarazzo received his Juris Doctor, with a concentration in Corporate Law, in 2005 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a master’s degree in Accounting, with a concentration in Tax Consulting, in 2000, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, Economics and Accounting in 1999, from the University of Virginia.
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