The American Law Institute-American Bar Association has planned updates to Corporate Taxation. The three-day program is being held Wednesday, March 28 to Friday, March 30, at the offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, 2300 N Street, NW in Washington, DC. It runs from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday and on Thursday and Friday begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m.

This is a comprehensive overview of the latest issues in corporate taxation for practitioners that need to manage a variety of complex issues that arise when structuring corporate transactions. Starting with basic merger and acquisition structures and their consequences, the program will explore taxable structures involving section 338(h)(10) elections and other basis step-up techniques; tax-free corporate reorganizations; section 351 acquisition structures; taxable and tax-free acquisitions involving disregarded entities; and special issues involving compensation obligations.

The keynote speaker is John L. Buckley, professor, Georgetown University Law Center and former chief democratic tax counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. Other speakers are Julie A. Divola, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittmann LLP; Rose L. Williams, Ernst & Young LLP; William D. Alexander, associate chief counsel, Internal Revenue Service; and John N. Geracimos, director, Washington National Tax, KPMG LLP.

To register, visit www.ali-aba.org/CT028.