Joshua D. Odintz is a tax attorney in Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Odintz focuses on tax policy, tax controversy and tax planning matters. Mr. Odintz represents clients before the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service U.S. Congress and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He assists clients in seeking legislative and regulatory changes to tax laws, as well as monitoring key legislative and regulatory developments. Significant issues include OECD Pillars One and Two, GILTI, BEAT, FDII, foreign tax credits, debt versus equity, the deductibility of research expenses, interest limitations, mark-to-market on financial products, FATCA, the Common Reporting Standard, the Build Back Better Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. He also advises clients on domestic and international tax controversy matters at all phases, from audit and administrative appeals through litigation. Mr. Odintz has experience handling cases involving methods of accounting, transfer pricing, Section 199, research credit, tax accounting, attorney-client privilege and work product, among others. Mr. Odintz works with multinational businesses to structure their inbound and outbound investments, including in light of the significant changes under OECD/G20 Pillar Two. In addition, Mr. Odintz has held high-level government positions with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Senate Committee on Finance. He previously served as a senior advisor for tax reform to the assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, where he advised senior treasury officials on tax reform options and issues. Mr. Odintz also served as the chief tax counsel to President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and was instrumental in formulating the tax proposals in the commission’s report. Additionally, Mr. Odintz served as the acting tax legislative counsel at the Treasury. Mr. Odintz spends his free time writing tax articles for various publications. He is a frequent contributor to the Knight Watch column in TAXES magazine, and his most (in)famous article is The TCJA is Not for Losers, which appeared in Bloomberg’s Tax Management International Journal.

Aaron is a partner in PwC's National Tax Services practice based in Washington, DC. His practice focuses on a broad range of international tax matters, including foreign tax credits, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international supply chain management, and global treasury operations. He works at the forefront of international tax policy developments, publishing and speaking on the latest OECD initiatives and U.S. legislation and regulations. Aaron also collaborates with taxpayers and consortiums to advocate for changes to current and proposed tax rules, including consulting with government officials at Treasury, IRS, and the Hill. Prior to rejoining PwC in 2018, Aaron served as a majority tax counsel to the Ways and Means Committee. There he focused on international tax, mergers and acquisitions, and energy-related tax provisions, assisting in the development and passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and other tax legislation. Before joining the Committee staff, Aaron worked in PwC’s National Tax Services practice, based in Washington, DC, and at a small public accounting firm in Omaha, Nebraska. Aaron is a CPA and an attorney. He holds a BSBA in Accounting from University of Nebraska at Omaha, a JD from Creighton University School of Law, and an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.

John Merrick is a Senior Level Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel (International) in the Office of Chief Counsel. Prior to joining Chief Counsel, John practiced international tax in the national offices of two accounting firms in Washington. He also practiced international and corporate tax in Chicago with an accounting firm and a law firm. John holds a BBA in accounting from Loyola University Chicago, summa cum laude, where he also earned his J.D., cum laude, and was a member of the Loyola Law Journal. He obtained an LL.M. in Taxation from the De Paul College of Law. He also passed the Certified Public Accountant exam.

Julia Skubis Weber is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Global Tax Practice Group in Chicago. She has been advising US, non-US and multinational corporate and pass-through clients on federal income tax planning matters since 2005.

Julia routinely advises US multinational and foreign-owned clients on cross-border tax issues, including internal reorganizations, structuring of outbound and inbound investments, foreign tax credits, subpart F, GILTI, withholding and treaty analysis. In addition, she has extensive experience related to mergers and acquisitions, spin-off transactions and joint ventures. Julia has been recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 and is a frequent speaker on international tax topics. She has contributed to Tax Analysts, Corporate Taxation and Tax Executive Magazine and co-authored International Tax Watch, a bi-monthly column in TAXES The Tax Magazine. Julia also teaches the Controlled Foreign Corporations class as an adjunct professor in Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s LLM in Taxation Program.

Danielle is partner in charge of the KPMG Washington National Tax practice, the technical core of the firm’s Tax practice in the United States. She also serves as Tax Policy Lead for the Americas.

Danielle advises multinational clients on the U.S. international tax aspects of their structures, operations, and transactions. In particular, she has extensive experience advising on issues relating to U.S. and global tax policy, tax treaties, expense allocation, source of income rules, and foreign tax credits. She is a frequent speaker on these topics at KPMG and industry events.

Prior to joining KPMG in 2017, Danielle served as International Tax Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy. In that role, she was the principal legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of Tax Policy and other Treasury officials and led the Office of the International Tax Counsel, whose attorneys provide legal advice and analysis on all international tax issues, including developing and reviewing legislative proposals, promulgating regulations and administrative guidance in consultation with the IRS, and negotiating tax treaties. She also served as a U.S. delegate to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with active involvement in the formulation of the policies now referred to as BEPS 1.0.

Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Danielle was a partner at a law firm, where she advised multinational corporations on international tax planning, controversy, and compliance matters.

Danielle received her JD degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2002, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Danielle also earned an LLM in taxation, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center and a BS degree in accountancy, summa cum laude, from Wright State University. Danielle is a certified public accountant licensed in the District of Columbia and Virginia.

Paul McLaughlin is a Special Counsel in the IRS Office of the Associate Chief Counsel (International). Paul assists the Associate Chief Counsel in providing legal advisory services on all international and foreign tax matters, including both guidance and controversy. Previously, from 2017 to 2021, Paul served as Legislation Counsel at the Joint Committee on Taxation, where he advised Congress on taxation of business activities and capital markets. Prior to that, he worked in private practice on a wide range of international and corporate tax matters.

Larissa has a passion for resolving complex tax issues and advises companies in the U.S. and all over the world. Keen analytical skills coupled with practical, straightforward solutions make Larissa an expert in tax structuring, resolving tax disputes, and negotiating favorable tax transactions. Clients find great value in Larissa’s persistence, technical expertise, and collaborative approach. Larissa is consistently recognized as one of the world’s leading tax advisors by International Tax Review, Chambers, Euromoney, Legal 500, Daily Journal, Silicon Valley Business Journal and IAE. Chambers has recognized Larissa for her “wide-ranging practice,” with clients noting that she has "strong international tax expertise," is "a thoughtful and smart tax lawyer" and "brings a lot of insight, and is thorough, responsive and careful." Larissa is one of the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisors according to ITR. In addition, Larissa enjoys teaching international tax at UC Berkeley, School of Law. Larissa writes a monthly column covering every important recent development in U.S. international tax for Tax Notes International and speaks at conferences including TEI, IFA, Pacific Rim Tax Institute, Euromoney and the ABA.

Loren Ponds centers her practice on providing strategic counsel to clients on legislative, regulatory, and other tax policy issues, as well as advising on technical tax matters related to transfer pricing and other international tax topics. She advises clients on the impacts of tax policy, such as the implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), and issues related to technical corrections, administrative guidance, and legislative amendments to various provisions. Ms. Ponds has also represented her clients before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on international tax controversy matters such as competent authority claims and transfer pricing audits. Ms. Ponds was described by clients in Chambers USA as "a brilliant tax lawyer. She has in-depth policy experience and is an incredibly well-rounded expert in the matters that matter most to us." Clients noted she is "very responsive and demonstrates tax technical skills and a deep awareness of how the tax legislative process works on Capitol Hill."

Catherine Schultz is Vice President, Tax and Fiscal Affairs for the Business Roundtable, where she is responsible for tax and advocacy efforts that promote U.S. economic growth, competitiveness and job creation.
Before joining the Business Roundtable, Catherine was the Vice President for Tax Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council for almost 15 years.   She was deeply involved in the OECD work on the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, and the work on the taxation of the digital economy.   She is a U.S. representative to the OECD on the WP9 Technical Advisory Group on the taxation of cross-border services under the VAT.   She was also involved in EU and UN tax committee issues that would directly affect the competitiveness of U.S. companies, including the taxation of digital services, withholding taxes based on companies’ gross receipts, and leading the opposition to the public release of country-by-country reporting information.  Schultz was responsible for working with the U.S. Treasury Department and the IRS on regulatory and tax treaty issues.  

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Ms. Lawrence is Vice President, Global Taxation at Johnson & Johnson corporate headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J.  She previously served as Vice President, Tax Planning and Counsel, focusing on international tax planning for all sectors of the business, as well as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and licensing transactions.
 
Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson in 2006, Ms. Lawrence was a tax associate with Dewey Ballantine LLP in the Washington, D.C. office, focusing on transactional tax, corporate tax planning and bankruptcy matters.
 
Ms. Lawrence received a Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia School of Law.  She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with a concentration in Accounting from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.  Ms. Lawrence is a Certified Public Accountant.

Prior to law school, Ms. Lawrence worked as a Senior Tax Accountant in the Real Estate and Financial Services group at Arthur Andersen LLP in Washington, D.C.

Tom Roesser is Tax Policy Counsel for Microsoft Corporation and is a member of Microsoft’s Tax & Customs Leadership Team. Tom’s team is responsible for Tax Modernization, Customs, Tax & Customs Controllership/Center of Excellence, Policy, and Benefits Taxation. Before joining Microsoft, Tom served as Tax Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and practiced law and accounting. Tom started his career as a certified public accountant in California and is an attorney licensed to practice in California and the District of Columbia. He holds a Dual LL.M. (with distinction) in Taxation and International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and a BS in Business Administration (emphasis in accounting) from the University of Southern California. Tom is a Board Member of the International Tax and Investment Center, National Foreign Trade Council (and former Chair of the Tax Committee), the Tax Council, and the Tax Foundation. He is a Vice-Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Taxation Commission and the U.S. Council for International Business Tax Committee. Tom is a Vice President of IFA USA, a member of the Central IFA Supervisory Board, and involved in various U.S. and international organizations.

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Alfonso Dulcey is a partner in Weil's Tax Department and is based in Miami. Alfonso advises clients on federal income taxation of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, other disposition strategies, restructurings, acquisition financing and the use of pass-through entities in acquisitive and divisive transactions, with an emphasis on corporate and international tax planning.

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Brian is a partner in the firm's Tax Department and advises multinational corporations doing business in and from Ireland on all aspects of Irish corporate taxation. Brian has a particular interest in cross border tax planning, transfer pricing and tax controversy matters and also has extensive experience in structuring mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganisations. Brian’s clients include many of the leading multinational corporations operating in the ICT, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and industrial sectors in Ireland. Brian also advises on Irish stamp duty matters particularly in the context of global reorganisations. Brian frequently publishes articles in leading tax journals and is Chartered Tax Advisor and a member of the Law Society of Ireland.

Stuart Landsberg is an Australian international tax partner currently on assignment to PwC US and based in New York. Stuart has over 18 years of tax advisory experience, including over 9 years as a partner. With degrees in accounting and law, and as a qualified chartered accountant, Stuart has a broad-tax advisory practice - however, he particularly specialises in advising on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and all tax aspects relating to cross-border investment and transactions. Over the course of his four years on assignment to the United States, he has particularly focused on advising US clients on how best to navigate the Australian tax system, including advising on transactions, holding structures, responding to changing judicial and administrative guidance and resolving disputes with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Stuart advises clients in a range of industries, including financial sponsors and sovereign wealth funds, technology, life science and pharmaceutical companies and he has maintains a deep specialisation advising energy, resources and infrastructure companies. His recent experience, particularly whilst on assignment to the US, has included a particular emphasis advising financial sponsors in relation to M&A and divestments, and technology companies in relation to intellectual property and holding company strategies.

Michiel specializes in Dutch and international tax structuring for US multinational enterprises and investment funds. He has broad experience in advising US clients on cross-border restructurings, M&A, financing transactions, international holding structures and withholding tax issues. He frequently advises US companies that want to expand their business operations to Europe. He also counsels many clients on the impact of recent EU and OECD changes (e.g. ATAD 2 and 3, DAC6 and Pillar 2) on their investment structures. He is a regular speaker at at international tax seminars and conferences, such as Tax Executives Institute, the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and the American Bar Association (ABA). He publishes and speaks frequently about the impact of Pillar Two on US multinational enterprises with EU business operations.

Patrick Brown is Co-Leader, Washington National Tax Services at PwC. Prior to joining PwC in February 2019, he was Vice President, Tax at GE, serving as both the tax director for GE’s Power business and the director of tax policy for GE.

Prior to these roles, Pat was a senior international tax counsel for GE corporate and GE Capital, where he primarily focused on GE’s international operations in the Nordic region, EMEA and Canada.  In this role, Pat worked extensively with GE Capital’s Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Finance and Consumer Finance businesses as a technical advisor and planner, focusing particularly on cross-border tax matters. He also had overall responsibility for GE’s foreign tax credit position and was the principal technical advisor to the tax director of GE on tax policy matters.

Pat joined GE in 2002 from the US Treasury Department, where he served as attorney-advisor and associate international tax counsel from 1998-2002.  During his time at Treasury, Pat focused primarily on international tax analysis, negotiation of tax treaties, and representing the US government at meetings of the OECD on various tax issues.

Audrey received a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Cornelia G. Kennedy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following her clerkship, Audrey was an associate at Foley, Hoag & Eliot in Boston, MA, and at McKee Nelson in Washington, DC. She then became a senior manager at KPMG LLP, where she was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of the National Tax Department in Washington, DC. From 2001 through 2005, she was an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel at the Treasury Department. In that role, she focused on corporate tax and consolidated return matters.
Audrey joined GE in February of 2006. Her first role at GE was in the International Tax Group at GE Corporate. She then moved to the Mergers and Acquisitions Group and is currently Senior Executive Tax Counsel, Transactional Planning and M&A at GE Corporate. Her present position focuses on acquisition and disposition transactions as well as internal reorganizations.

With over 30 years of industry experience, Mark has helped many of the country’s most successful enterprises implement all aspects of international taxation. A hallmark of Mark’s career has been leveraging technology to improve tax department performance. Prior to founding Forte International Tax, Mark held leadership positions at PwC, Ernst & Young, and CliftonLarsonAllen. Mark leads the firm on its mission of achieving global tax minimization through process efficiency.

Eric Sloan is a partner in the New York and Washington D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a Co-Chair of the Firm’s Global Tax Practice Group. With more than 30 years of broad transactional and structuring experience, Mr. Sloan is a nationally recognized expert in private equity and partnership taxation, as well as on UP-C IPOs and tax receivable agreements. He advised on the first passthrough portfolio company investments made by four of the largest U.S. based private equity firms. Mr. Sloan has substantial experience in the formation of domestic and cross-border joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and interests in joint ventures. He also maintains a broad-based corporate tax practice, having advised on numerous spin-offs and other public and private mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs. In addition, Mr. Sloan is deeply experienced in obtaining private letter rulings and closing agreements from the Internal Revenue Service on novel and difficult issues on an expedited basis.

Mr. Sloan is ranked as a leading tax lawyer (Band 1) by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The Best Lawyers in America® recognizes him for Tax and Who’s Who Legal also recognizes Mr. Sloan as an “Expert” in the area of Corporate Tax as well. Additionally, Mr. Sloan was featured in the Who’s Who Legal inaugural edition of Thought Leaders: USA 2023.

Mr. Sloan-started his legal career as an associate with Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and practiced law in Washington, D.C. before joining Deloitte as a principal, where he was asked to establish and lead Deloitte's National Office Partnership Taxation group. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago and an LL.M. with distinction in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Sloan is a member of the District of Columbia bar and the New York bar.

Amanda Pedvin Varma is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Steptoe LLP. She advises multinational businesses across a variety of industries on US federal income tax matters with a focus on international tax, including planning, controversies, and tax policy issues. Amanda also regularly advises clients on mutual agreement procedures and advance pricing agreements and is a co-author of the treatise International Tax Controversies: A Practical Guide. Amanda is an Adjunct Professor of Law in the Graduate Tax Program at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches US International Inbound Tax, a course focusing on the US taxation of foreign persons investing in the United States.