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Robert Duran

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Special Counsel

Tax, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Contact
  • rduran@manatt.com
  • Phone: 310.312.4274
  • Phone: 714.371.2500
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  • Los Angeles
  • Orange County
Bar Admissions
  • California
Education
  • New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation

    Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D.
    Associate Editor, Computer & High Technology Law Journal

    California State University, Fullerton, B.A.

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Profile

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Bob Duran is a special counsel in the Firm’s tax, employee benefits and executive compensation practice group. For more than 25 years, he has advised clients about a wide range of business and tax matters, including taxation of cross-border transactions, with an emphasis on Mexico and Latin America.

For those investing or expanding operations across borders, Bob has advised on the tax-efficient use of pass-through and hybrid entities, complex capital structures (e.g., debt and preferred equity), treaties, tax credits and arrangements affecting the timing and character of income and deductions, with emphasis on structuring offshore transactions and operations to minimize the effects of Subpart F and other U.S. anti-deferral regimes, as well as withholding taxes.

Bob has also advised non-U.S. individuals and entities entering the United States on issues such as whether to operate through a branch or a subsidiary, how to capitalize the branch or subsidiary (i.e., debt or equity) and how to minimize U.S. withholding and branch taxes through careful structuring and tax treaties, and planning for related-party transactions. He has represented clients from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico and the U.K., among other countries.

Bob also has substantial experience in handling a wide range of business transactions, including taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, corporate buyouts and restructurings, joint ventures, and partnership, LLC and S corporation transactions.

Previously, Bob was Vice President-Legal and Compliance at GroupEx Financial Corporation, a money transfer company serving the U.S.-to-Mexico/Latin America corridor. In that role, he directed the general counsel’s office and the compliance department, which was responsible for anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance.

Bob is also an adjunct professor of law at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, where he teaches Corporate and Individual Income Tax, and is a presenter at the Hawaii Tax Institute, lecturing on international tax subjects.

Honors & Awards

Honors & Awards

The Best Lawyers in America, 2023

Memberships

Memberships

Admitted to practice in the state of California and before the U.S. Tax Court

Director and Treasurer of the Mexican American Bar Foundation, 1991

Bob in the News

  • 08.19.22

    Manatt Represents Game Production Company Dark Burn Creative in ...

    A Manatt team represented Dark Burn Creative, a premier video production company that crafts triple-A game trailers, in its acquisition by Trailer ...

  • 08.18.22

    86 Manatt Attorneys Named to 2023 Best Lawyers Guide

    Eighty-six Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each ...

  • 04.26.22

    Manatt Advises HARTBEAT on Formation and $100M Financing

    A Manatt team led by Entertainment Partner Sophia Yen advised HARTBEAT on the formation of the company and represented HARTBEAT in its $100 ...

  • 04.21.22

    Manatt Represents Gamelancer, Inc., in Its Sale to Wondr Gaming Corp.

    A Manatt team represented Gamelancer, Inc., currently the largest online gaming platform on TikTok and Snapchat with more than 26.5 million followe...

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Bob's Newsletters

  • 01.25.22

    Crypto Reporting Rules in the Biden Infrastructure Deal

    The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, H.R. 3684, commonly referred to as the infrastructure bill, was signed into law by President Biden on ...

  • 09.02.20

    Updated: Guidance on Payroll Tax Deferral

    On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit employers to defer the withholding and ...

  • 03.27.20

    Modifying Revised Net Operating Loss Tax Rules to Ease Financial and ...

    The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on our nation include significant financial and economic hardships.

  • 03.27.20

    Updated: Limited Postponement of 1031 Deferred Real Property Exchange ...

    The IRS has provided a limited deadline extension for Section 1031 deferred real property exchanges in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bob's Events and Webinars

  • 01.25.18

    M&A Value Creation and Preservation Forum

    Manatt is hosting “M&A Value Creation and Preservation Forum,” a complimentary forum created for C-suite executives, in-house ...

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