Harsha Reddy is a partner in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's Tax practice and is located in the New York office. He represents U.S. and foreign business entities and individuals in the U.S. federal income tax aspects of international transactions; buyers and sellers in asset and stock purchases and sales; individuals and business entities in tax-free mergers and divestitures; corporations in business restructurings; domestic and foreign issuers and underwriters in offerings of various securities; domestic and foreign lenders and borrowers in various types of financings; businesses in the tax aspects of project finance; and U.S. and foreign investors in onshore and offshore funds.
He is the author of two Tax Management Portfolios™, “Intellectual Property: Acquisition, Development and Ownership” and “Intellectual Property: Exploitation and Disposition” and is also a co-author of “Stock Purchases Taxed as Asset Acquisitions - 338,” also in the Tax Management Portfolio™ series.
Mr. Reddy has been listed on the Legal 500 US list for Domestic Tax from 2012 to 2015.
Education:
B.A., Yale University (1993) magna cum laude, distinction in Economics
J.D., Harvard Law School (1996) cum laude
Tax Management Portfolios™
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Stock Purchases Treated as Asset Acquisitions — Section 338 (Portfolio 788)
This Portfolio analyzes in detail the elections under §338(g) and §338(h)(10), available when a purchasing corporation makes a "qualified stock purchase" of a target corporation.
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Intellectual Property: Exploitation and Disposition (Portfolio 558)
Tax Management Portfolio, Intellectual Property: Exploitation and Disposition , No. 558, describes the rules relating to the taxation of income from the exploitation and disposition of patents, copyrights, know-how and trade secrets (referred to generically as “ know-how ”), and trademarks and trade names.
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Intellectual Property: Acquisition, Development and Ownership (Portfolio 557)
This Portfolio discusses the tax implications of developing and licensing patents and know-how.