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Basile J. Manikas

Basile J. Manikas

Associate
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Basile Manikas is an associate in Baker McKenzie’s Tax Practice Group based in Chicago. He represents and advises multinational companies on a full range of state and local tax controversy, planning, and consulting.

Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Basile worked at global tax advisory firms for several years with a primary focus on state and local tax for multinational corporations and flow-through entities. Specifically, Basile performed and led state and local income and indirect tax due diligence on M&A, spin-offs, reorganizations, and restructuring transactions. Basile has worked on a wide variety of industries such as manufacturing, software/technology, healthcare, real property holding, and marketing.

In law school, Basile was the Editor for the International Law Review journal and Consumer Law journal, served as the Director of Tax for the Business Law Society and Vice President of the Hellenic Bar Association and also received Tax and Transactional certificates.

Practice Focus

Focusing on state and local tax (SALT), Basile is advising clients on all aspects of direct and indirect taxes. He is experienced in working on complex state and local tax transactions and compliance, including identifying and computing potential exposures, transfer taxes, gross up models for stock and asset sales, reviewing purchase agreements, and identify potential pull-through opportunities for any state and local tax issues.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised numerous private equity and major international companies on state and local tax due diligence related to M&A, spin-offs, reorganizations, and restructuring transactions.

Admissions

  • Illinois~United States (2019)

Education

  • Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Juris Doctor) (2019)
  • Loyola University Chicago, Quinlan School of Business (Masters of Business Administration) (2019)
  • University of Illinois (Bachelor of Science in Consumer Economics and Finance) (2015)

Languages

  • English
  • Greek
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