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Marc N. Aspis

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+1.212.692.6772

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Marc handles transaction-related tax matters pertaining to employment benefits and compensation and also provides compliance counseling related to employment retirement plans, ERISA, and PBGC regulations. He regularly conducts tax and employee benefits/executive compensation due diligence for mergers and acquisitions and other commercial transactions.

Prior to joining Mintz, Marc was an associate in the tax and personal planning, employee benefits, and employment practices of a mid-size New York law firm. He represented clients in tax matters related to mergers, acquisitions, cross-border transactions, international M&A transactions, real estate investments, and joint ventures. In addition, Marc counseled foreign clients on tax planning and provided advice on a broad range of additional tax issues. His experience included defending a client in an $800,000 state tax audit. 

Earlier Marc worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). As a senior tax associate in the international tax services division, he helped clients structure transactions in a tax-efficient manner, focusing on the US federal income tax implications of cross-border and international transactions, including M&As.

While earning his LLM in taxation, Marc served as a judicial extern for the United States Tax Court. After completing law school, he was an associate in a New York law firm’s commercial litigation practice.

Marc also served as an infantry sergeant in the Israel Defense Forces.

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On August 19, 2022, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor (the "Departments") issued final rules (the “Final Rules”) incorporating comments received on the interim rules issued in July and October 2021, clarifying some of the requirements set forth in Title I of Division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the "Act") and the interim rules and accounting for relevant federal court rulings. In particular, the Final Rules primarily address three distinct but related topics: (1) eliminating the “rebuttable presumption standard,” (2) adding new rules regarding “downcoding,” and (3) reminding the arbitrators of their written requirements.  In this post Mintz attorneys Mark Aspis and Alden Bianchi discuss the implication of the Final rules which will be effective on October 25, 2022.
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