Brian E. Andreoli is a partner at DLAiper who focuses his practice on transfer pricing, international tax matters, and state tax matters. Mr. Andreoli has been a tax professional for more than 30 years, with experience in public, accounting, corporate (both foreign and domestic) law, and litigation. He has tried cases and administrative hearings in the states of New York, Connecticut, Ohio, California, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington. These cases have concerned corporate income tax, sales and use tax, franchise tax and property tax. He also practices in voluntary disclosures for both corporations and individuals, concerning both civil and criminal penalties.

Mr. Andreoli is admitted before the bars in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is licensed to practice in the United States Tax Court, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, and the Federal District Courts of the District of Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York (Southern and Eastern). He has been listed in the 2008 Guide to the World's Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers.

Nancy Berk, C.P.A. is an International Tax Consulting Executive Director at Grant Thornton in New York. Nancy has more than twenty-five years of public accounting experience in providing full tax services, Nancy specializes in international tax consulting and planning for multinational corporations, in addition to consulting for consolidated groups and publicly-traded companies. Nancy is a frequent lecturer of international tax issues at professional forums and author of articles on international tax matters for a variety of professional publications. Nancy was an instructor at the Grant Thornton (United States) International Tax Academies.  She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New York State and New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, NYSSCPA International Tax Committee member and former Chairman.  Nancy received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, her MBA from Columbia University and her Advanced Professional Certification in Taxation from New York University.

Tom Bryan is an international tax expert with over 20 years of experience. He is a former director in the International Tax Services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, as well as an alumnus of Deloitte & Touche’s international tax group. Tom holds a B.A., in accounting from Wagner Collage; a J.D. from Western New England Collage School of Law; and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University. Tom has written several international tax articles for the Journal of Taxation and has spoken at numerous international tax seminars.

Michael DeSimone works in conjunction with the Tax & Accounting clients of Thomson Reuters in the implementation and use of the ONESOURCE Transfer Pricing products and services. He also assists clients to analyze their business operations and international tax structures.

Prior to joining the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, Michael has 28 years of Tax experience with various Fortune 500 companies and was most recently the Manager of Tax Research for American Standard Companies Inc. His responsibilities encompassed the analysis and implementation of various strategies involving supply chain management and logistics, commissionaires, IP migration, holding company structures, and multi-jurisdiction financing/credit agreements, transfer pricing studies and documentation, as well as successfully defending these strategies before the IRS and various foreign tax authorities. Michael is an Attorney admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. He received his JD from New York Law School and his BS, Accounting from Rutgers University.

Steve Fox is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant with over 30 years international tax experience.Prior to starting his own practice, he was an International Tax Director at BDO Seidman, Deloitte and Grant Thornton, and a member of the national transfer pricing teams of all three firms.  Steve has advised multinational mid market through Fortune 100 clients in a wide array of industries on most U.S. international and foreign tax issues.  His clients have included AT&T, Lucent, TransTechnology, Dialogic, Carbone Lorraine, Konica, Steelcase, Interface Flooring, Brighton-Best, Liz Claiborne, Pullman, and others. 

Steve has developed numerous international tax ideas, including ones to avoid section 956, allow DISC benefits for widely held C corporations, make U.S. tax optional for foreign banks, and others. He has advised clients on international structuring, foreign tax credit issues, intercompany pricing, Subpart F, international assignees, and inbound issues. Steve has successfully defended clients against U.S., UK, Canadian, and German tax authorities on transfer pricing and numerous other issues.  He has managed numerous FIN 48 and tax provision projects for public clients. 

Steve is a frequent lecturer with professional tax organizations, and has authored articles appearing in Journal of Taxation, Journal of International Taxation, and other publications. As an Adjunct Professor of Taxation at Fairleigh Dickinson University, he developed and taught the four course international tax program.Steve holds an MS Acc. and BBA from University of Houston.

Mitchell Siegel is a Director in Deloitte’s Northeast International Tax Group.  Mitch has over 25 years experience serving a diverse client base which includes Fortune 500 multinational corporations, closely-held corporations, real estate partnerships, and investment advisers.  Mitch advises both U.S. and Foreign multinationals in a number of industries including financial services, manufacturing, real estate, and consumer business.  Mitch is a frequent speaker on multinational tax topics including tax deferral techniques, foreign tax credit planning, and accounting for income taxes.  Mitch received his BS in Accounting, Suma Cum Laude from SUNY/ Binghamton, his MS in Taxation from Seton Hall University and is a CPA in New York and New Jersey.  He is a member of AICPA, NYSSCPA and the International Fiscal Association.

Jennifer Sponzilli is an International Corporate Services Tax Principal at KPMG in New York.  Jennifer specializes in tax structuring of cross-border structured financings, tax-free reorganizations, and taxable acquisitions, focusing on tax treaties, withholding tax, foreign tax credits, and anti-deferral regimes.  Jennifer has experience in advising both U.S. and non-U.S. based financial institutions on the tax aspects of cross-border transactions.  Jennifer also has extensive experience in managing large scale tax compliance engagements for the same client base.  Jennifer joined KPMG’s Federal Tax practice in 1997 upon graduation from law school, where she worked primarily with U.S. branches of Japanese banks.  In 1999, Jennifer transferred to the International Corporate Services practice, where she continued to focus on financial institutions and cross-border structured financings.  Jennifer received her B.A. in economics with concentrations in accounting and finance from Rutgers University, J.D. degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, and LLM –Tax from New York University.  Jennifer is a member of the International Fiscal Association and New York State Bar Association.

Steven C. Wrappe is in Ernst & Young LLP’s International Tax Services Transfer Pricing practice. Steve is located in Washington, D.C. He brings over nearly 30 years of tax experience, including nearly 20 years of extensive experience in all aspects of transfer pricing across all industries. Steve’s knowledge in transfer pricing controversy includes examination, appeals, alternative dispute resolutions, advance pricing agreements, mutual agreement procedures and customs agreements. His combined advance pricing agreements and mutual agreement procedures experience is in excess of 100 cases.

Previously, Steve was a partner at a global law firm. Prior to that, he spent 10 years as a partner and director of the advance pricing agreement practice at another Big Four firm. Steve also brings a wealth of government experience to Ernst & Young, having served as an attorney at the Internal Revenue Service Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International) Advance Pricing Agreement Program.

Steve is actively involved in the international tax and transfer pricing community. He has served as Chair of the Transfer Pricing Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section. He serves on the Board of Advisors of New York University School of Law’s International Tax Program and BNA Tax Management (Transfer Pricing). Steve is an Adjunct Professor (Transfer Pricing) at Georgetown University Law Center and New York University School of Law. He has published a leading transfer pricing treatise and over 100 articles on transfer pricing topics. Steve speaks globally on transfer pricing and dispute resolution.

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