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United States
Edwin L Norris
Sidley Austin LLP
555 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
US
Tel: (1) 213 896 6026
Fax: (1) 213 896 6600
Email: enorris@sidley.com
Website: www.sidley.com
Edwin L Norris is the partner in charge of the tax group in the Los Angeles office. He
practises primarily in the areas of federal and state business taxation and entertainment
ventures, focusing on the planning and implementation of complicated, tax-intensive
transactions. He also handles complex tax controversies.
Mr Norris has extensive experience in resolving the complex tax issues presented by large
business transactions, especially transactions involving acquisitions and dispositions and
international joint ventures and investments (both inbound and outbound).
Mr Norris has been heavily involved in international transactions for nearly 30 years. For
the past 15 years, he has represented a major motion picture studio as its principal outside
tax counsel, advising the studio in connection with a variety of domestic and international
joint ventures, film financing transactions, acquisitions and dispositions. Recently, Mr
Norris has been the studio’s outside counsel principally responsible for the design and
implementation of a complex international joint venture for the production of up to $5
billion of theatrical motion pictures.
Mr Norris has also represented a number of other clients on a variety of transactions. His
recent projects include a large film securitization transaction on behalf of a major
investment bank and many other types of acquisition, film financing and joint venture
transactions.
Mr Norris is a member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. He serves on
the Tax Section’s Committee on Foreign Activities of United States Taxpayers and served
as chairman of the subcommittee on the anti-conduit regulations. In that capacity, he was
co-author of the American Bar Association Tax Section’s formal comments in 1995 on the
proposed anti-conduit regulations. Mr Norris has lectured on a variety of federal and state
tax matters, has authored numerous tax articles and has taught a law school course on
international business transactions. Mr Norris spoke in January 1999 on “Tax Aspects of
Film Company Acquisitions” at the 51st Annual Institute on Federal Taxation sponsored
by the University of Southern California School of Law
Mr Norris graduated from New York University School of Law (LLM in taxation) in
1978, from Yale Law School (JD) in 1972, and from Duke University (BA) in 1968. He
admitted to practise in California (1987), New York (1973), Oklahoma, and at the US Tax
Court.
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