Julia Skubis Weber

Julia has extensive experience advising on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including public-company separations and spin-offs, licensing transactions, joint ventures, pre-divestiture carve-outs, and post-acquisition integrations. She routinely counsels multinational and foreign-owned business on cross-border tax matters involving inbound and outbound investments, foreign tax credits, subpart F, FDDEI, NCTI, withholding taxes, treaty interpretation, and related international tax considerations.

Julia has been recognized as a leading tax practitioner by Chambers USA and The Legal 500. She is a frequent speaker on international and domestic tax issues and has presented at programs hosted by Practising Law Institute (PLI) , the International Fiscal Association, Tax Executives Institute, the DC Bar Tax Conference, and the University of Chicago Law School Federal Tax Conference. She has written extensively on tax matters, including contributions to Tax Analysts, Corporate Taxation, and Tax Executive Magazine, and she co-authored International Tax Watch, a bimonthly column in TAXES: The Tax Magazine. She also serves as an adjunct professor in Northwestern Pritzker School of Law's LLM in Taxation Program, where she teaches Controlled Foreign Corporations, and serves on the University of Chicago Law School Federal Tax Conference Planning Committee.

• Advised S&P Global on the separation and spin-off of its Mobility Business into Mobility Global Inc.
• Advised Intel Corporation on the separation and launch of its Programmable Solutions Group into Altera Corporation.
• Advised Merck & Co., Inc. on the separation and spin-off of its women’s health business into Organon & Co.
• Represented US- and foreign-parented multinational clients in pre-divestiture carve-outs, post-acquisition integrations and reorganizations, inbound and outbound licensing and profit-sharing arrangements, and renewable energy tax credit transactions.
• Served as a strategic advisor on US federal and foreign tax compliance and controversy matters involving foreign tax credits, FDII/FDDEI, the allocation and apportionment of expenditures, subpart F, and currency transactions.