Bankruptcy is a trying time for any company. For a business as large and as complex as Lehman Brothers, the process was and continues to be nothing short of traumatic. Working through the tax implications is a significant part of the work. Catherine Snowdon talks to Darryl Steinberg, managing director and senior tax counsel to Lehman Brothers Holdings and one of his chief advisers, Mike Lippman, managing director at Alvarez & Marsal Taxand
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