John Griffin

John Griffin has over 13 years of experience providing consulting and tax compliance services for the Alternative Investment Funds practice at Andersen. During his career, John has provided consulting services related to investment fund structure and tax optimization, managed numerous engagements in the venture capital, private equity, and fund of fund areas, consulted on choice of entity considerations, and provided consulting and compliance expertise related to foreign investments and related tax reporting.

He has experience analyzing PFIC status of foreign companies, making QSBS determinations, analyzing tax ramifications on portfolio company mergers and acquisitions, and performing a variety of complicated carried interest calculations.

Services provided on recent engagements include:

• Choice of Entity analysis for investment structure involving Internal Revenue Code Sec. 351 tax free reorganizations, qualified opportunity zone credits, qualified small business stock qualification, and Code Sec. 199A pass-through deduction applicability
• Consulting on management company buyout including Code Sec. 754 election analysis
• PFIC testing of Venture Capital fund foreign portfolios companies
• Tax compliance and reporting related to disposition of Code Sec. 957 controlled foreign corporations involving Code Sec. 1248(a) dividend reclassification, Accumulated Earnings and Profits analysis, and U.S./ Canada Tax Treaty analysis
• Restructure consulting and planning related to VC fund and management consulting consolidation