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Anne McGinnis

Partner, Paul Weiss

212-373-3268amcginnis@paulweiss.com

1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019

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As partner in the Tax Department, Anne McGinnis advises clients on a variety of U.S. federal income tax matters, with particular focus on U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and dispositions (including tax-free reorganizations and spinoffs), joint ventures, strategic investments, financings and restructurings. She also regularly advises private investment fund clients on fund-related U.S. tax issues, including structuring and fund formation, “upper tier arrangements” and operational issues.

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation 2026 Tax
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation 2025 Tax
The Inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers 2025 M&A, Tax Transactional, Cross Border

McGinnis’s recent experience includes:

  • Albireo in its sale to Ipsen
  • Ashton Kutcher in his investment in Soho House & Co., a New York-based members’ club, in connection with Soho House’s $2.7 billion take-private transaction
  • Brinley Partners in a $4 billion commitment as part of a strategic partnership with a leading U.S. insurance company
  • Endeavor Energy Resources in its $26 billion merger with Diamondback Energy
  • Fernando Chico Pardo and his family in their $2.3 billion acquisition of a 25% equity stake in Grupo Financiero Banamex
  • Metsera in its $8.1 billion sale to Pfizer
  • Resolute Holdings and its affiliates in their acquisition of a majority interest in CompoSecure
  • Rodina Capital in its acquisition of Rubicon Technologies’ fleet technology business unit and convertible preferred equity
  • Rotech Healthcare Holdings in its $1.36 billion sale to Owens & Minor

McGinnis’s recent restructuring experience includes:

  • Certain affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management in their capacities as agent and lenders under a $600 million first lien back-leverage loan
    facility to PosiGen, including in connection with PosiGen’s chapter 11 cases
  • MSG Networks, the operator of a leading regional sports network in New York City metro area and Buffalo, New York, in its successful out-of-court restructuring of more than $800 million of funded debt and its media rights agreement with its team partners
  • National CineMedia in its chapter 11 cases filed in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas
  • Party City and certain domestic subsidiaries in its prearranged chapter 11 proceedings, as well as the provision of $150 million of debtor-in-possession financing, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas
  • Proterra in its chapter 11 cases in the District of Delaware
  • Revlon and certain of its subsidiaries in their chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
  • Sandvine Corporation, an Ontario-based application classification and network optimization company, in its bankruptcy processes under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and U.S. chapter 15

Some of McGinnis’s private investment funds clients include Atomico PartnersBlackstone CreditBrinley PartnersCatalio Capital ManagementDeclaration PartnersFalconPoint Capital Partners, MSD Capital, Oak Hill Capital PartnersTC43 and XN LP.