Summer Course
2013
Early bird discount
when applying before
1 April 2013 8 -26 July 2013
3 weeks to choose from!
Week 1: Tax treaties
Week 2: Advanced subjects
Week 3: Transfer pricing
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 | Kees van Raad
is Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), Chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden and Director of the Leiden Adv LLM Program in International Tax Law. After obtaining his law degree from Leiden, and a postgraduate degree from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) he worked for several years at International Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. In 1986 he obtained at Leiden University a doctorate in law (dissertation: Nondiscrimination in International Tax Law [Kluwer, 1986]) and was appointed to the newly created chair in International Tax Law at that university. In addition to his teaching, researching, and supervising doctoral dissertations at Leiden University, he serves as a judge at a regional Netherlands tax court, specializing in international cases, and acts as a consultant to Loyens & Loeff, a leading Dutch (tax) law firm.
Courses: Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Howard Abrams
Professor of Law at Emory Law School in Atlanta, GA, is a partnership tax specialist, receiving his B.A. from the University of California (Irvine) and his J.D. from Harvard University. He has written four books, the BNA Tax Management Portfolio on Disregarded Entities, and more than thirty articles on taxation. Professor Abrams has been at Emory University since 1983, spent the 1999-2000 academic year with the national office of Deloitte as the Director of Real Estate Tax Knowledge, and from January of 2003 through August of 2004 was of counsel to Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC. He teaches regularly at the University of Georgia and at Leiden University in the Netherlands and is a member of the American Law Institute and the DC Bar. Prior to joining the Emory faculty, Professor Abrams was a law clerk to Chief Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., of the United States Tax Court and practiced in Los Angeles with the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Professor Abrams has taught as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School and Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley).
Course: US Domestic Tax Law
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 | Marco Adda
Mr. Adda is an Associate at Bonelli Erede Pappalardo since 2010. He advises multinational enterprises on direct taxation and international tax law, with emphasis on transfer pricing. With particular reference to transfer pricing, he has been actively involved in several projects concerning transfer pricing documentation, MAP/APAs procedures and tax litigations.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Joseph Andrus
Mr. Andrus is the Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit at the OECD. In that role he is responsible for the work of the OECD on transfer pricing matters. He serves as the Secretariat to Working Party 6, the OECD Working Party responsible for development of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines and other OECD transfer pricing work. Currently he is responsible for leading the OECD work projects on transfer pricing aspects of intangibles and on administrative simplification of transfer pricing matters.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Paolo Arginelli
Paolo Arginelli graduated in Economics at the University of Bologna (Italy, 1999) and obtained a post-graduate degree in tax law and tax planning at Università Federico II di Napoli in partnership with Ernst & Young (2003) and an advanced-LLM degree in International Tax Law from Leiden University (2006). Paolo is currently a PHD candidate at Leiden University and associated resercher and lecturer at the Catholic University in Piacenza (Italy).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | John F. Avery Jones CBE
Graduated from Cambridge University. Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Tax Chamber) in the UK. He was President of the British Branch of the IFA, as well as a member and Vice-president of the IFA Committee, and is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) in Amsterdam. Retired Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Consulting editor of the journal "British Tax Review".
Course: Tax Treaties
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 | Paolo Valerio Barbantini
Degree in Economics from Rome University in 1995 and a Master degree in International Taxation in 1996. Paolo Valerio Barbantini serves, since September 2004, the Italian Revenue Agency. He is head of the Large Business Division of the Revenue Agency. Until January 2009, he directed the International Tax Ruling Office. He is member of the Italian delegation at the OECD Working Group 6 on transfer pricing and has been actively involved in the WP6 special sessions on transfer pricing aspects of business restructuring.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Jaap Bellingwout
Professor of tax law at the Free University (‘VU’) in Amsterdam. Expert in international and European taxation with KPMG Meijburg & Co, where he advices MNE's, and assists the Aruban government on income tax reforms and international fiscal diplomatic affairs (a.o. OECD). Author of a book about company migration and of many articles on corporate and international and European taxation, including the tax issues related to the Societas Europaea.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Tanja Bender
Law degree from Leiden University (1987). Doctorate in law (Leiden, 2000); dissertation on the Dutch exemption method for the avoidance of international juridical double taxation. In 2001 she was appointed professor of International tax at Leiden University (since 2005 part-time). Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (since 2005). Board Member of the International Tax Center Leiden.
Course: Fundamentals of International Tax Law
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 | Jeroen Bijl
Jeroen Bijl is currently leading the Indirect Tax team in PwC Netherlands's Tax Knowledge Centre. He is PwC Netherlands' Indirect Taxes Business Development leader, and the Dutch representative in PwC's Global Indirect Taxes Business Development Team. Jeroen is responsible for PwC's internal and external newsletters and other sources of information regarding indirect taxes. He is also responsible for PwC Netherlands’ internal VAT training, with over 15 years' experience in the field of VAT. He holds a degree in law (major in tax) and is a PhD fellow at Tilburg University, writing his thesis about VAT (The VAT treatment of promitional activities).
Course: Value-Added Tax Law
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 | Ted Braakman
Ted Braakman (1955), has been a member of the Indirect Tax group of Ernst & Young for almost 25 years. He was leader of the EMEIA Indirect Tax Financial Services Group until 2011. He advised large multinational financial institutions on complex VAT matters in banking, insurance and asset management. He was involved in projects for the European Commission and the European Banking Federation on the taxation of financial services. He also lectures in VAT at the Erasmus School of Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is author if various VAT publications and frequent speaker at training courses and tax seminars.
Course: Value-Added Tax Law
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 | Yariv Brauner
Yariv Brauner is a Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, U.S.A. Professor Brauner received his law degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and an LL.M (in International Taxation) and a J.S.D. from New York University. He practiced with Ernst & Young LLP in New York City.
He taught at New York University, Northwestern University and the Arizona State University prior to joining the graduate tax faculty at the University of Florida in 2006. Specializing in international tax law, Professor Brauner is the co-author of of U.S. International Taxation – Cases and Materials, 3rd. Ed. (with Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Diane M. Ring) and numerous articles. He has taught U.S. tax courses and presented papers throughout the world.
Course: US International Tax Law
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 | Ronald van den Brekel
Ronald van den Brekel is a tax partner at Ernst & Young, Rotterdam. He is working in transfer pricing and tax effective supply chain management (TESCM). From 2004 until 2009 he has been Chair of the Dutch Tax Administration´s Transfer Pricing coordination group since 2004. Mr. Van den Brekel obtained a master´s degree in Fiscal Economics at the University of Tilburg as well as a postgraduate degree in Accountancy (University of Rotterdam) and in IT-auditing (Free University, Amsterdam).
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Tim Brierley
Global tax director at SABIC, a leading chemicals company. Formerly, international tax counsel & tax director of a GE Capital business and member of GE’s global transfer pricing council; international tax partner at Deloitte in Amsterdam, specializing in transfer pricing and enterprise model re-structuring. Was Deloitte’s global lead tax partner on aviation taxation; global tax director of a NYSE-listed Dutch multinational.
Regular speaker & author on international tax & transfer pricing. Was editor of the IBFD’s ‘Guides to European Taxation’.
Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and awarded an LL.B (Hons.) from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Patricia A. Brown
Patricia A. Brown is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of international taxation, with specialties in tax treaty policy and interpretation and the international taxation of financial products and institutions.
Course: US International Tax Law
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 | Francisco Cabral Matos
Francisco Cabral Matos joined Vieira de Almeida & Associados in 2007. He is an associate at the Tax area of practice where he has been actively involved in several transactions, namely in corporate restructuring, banking and finance, international tax planning and tax litigation.
Other professional background
Before joining the firm he worked at the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union (2007) as liaison officer of the Portuguese Government.
Courses: EU Tax Law, Value-Added Tax Law
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 | Emidio Cacciapuoti
Graduated in economics at the University of Pavia (1996). LLM degree in Corporate Tax Law (Bocconi University [Milan],1998) and LLM degree in International Taxation (Leiden, 2002). Head of the tax department of SJ Berwin LLP Milan (since 2006). Lecturer in domestic and international taxation at various Italian universities, including the University Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC, Castellanza). Chartered tax advisor (member of Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti, since 2001).
Courses: International Tax Planning, Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties
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 | Marc J.L. van Campen
Law degree (1992, University of Amsterdam). LLM degree (1993, London School of Economics). Denton Hall Sollicitors London (1992-1993). Houthoff Advocaten (1994-1997). Since 1997 Marc van Campen is practicing at Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam, since 2001 as partner, with a focus on Pan European venture capital funds and venture capital transactions. He was the initiator of the International Private Equity Group at the start of 2007, the private equity and fund structuring practice of the Amsterdam office. He still leads it, together with the other partners in that group, in addition to serving on the Managing Board of Baker & McKenzie in Amsterdam. Member of several tax associations.
Course: International Tax Planning
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| Thomas Colombo
Mr. Colombo is member of Valdani Vicari & Associati’s Board of Directors since 2010. He acts as organizer of and participant in both national and international meetings and conferences on Transfer Pricing. Mr. Colombo is involved, mostly as project manager, in several projects related to Transfer Pricing: assessment and evaluation of existing transfer pricing policies; design and implementation of new policies; management of APAs and MAPs.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Giammarco Cottani
LLM cum laude in European and International Taxation at the European Tax College, Leuven, Belgium and Tilburg, the Netherlands, and PhD in Corporate Taxation at LUISS University, Rome is an Adviser to Italy Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) Deputy's Commissioner.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Katalin Csikos
Katalin Csikos is a assistant tax manager with the transfer pricing team of PwC in the Netherlands. She graduated in Law at the University of Budapest, Hungary (2003) and obtained an advanced LLM degree in International Tax Law from Leiden University (2006). Katalin’s professional experience focuses on transfer pricing aspects of value chains and intercompany transactions, in various industries including pharma, energy & mining, and food and beverages. She recently managed various Pan-European transfer pricing planning and documentation projects including profit allocation between head office and permanent establishments involving the above industries. Furthermore, Katalin assisted clients in various global, i.e. Americas, Pan-European, African and Middle East transfer pricing audits. She was also involved in uni- and bilateral advance pricing agreements negotiations. Katalin is also involved in tutoring at the international PwC transfer pricing courses.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Jasper L. Cummings, Jr.
Jack Cummings has practiced tax law exclusively for twenty five years and has had academic appointments as a full time tax teacher (NYU Law School and the University of Houston Law School) as well as teaching tax as an adjunct at the University of North Carolina and Duke Law Schools. He has served in the Internal Revenue Service as Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) of the IRS. He has served as Chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. He is the author of over 70 articles on income tax, numerous Bar Association reports, numerous CLE monographs, and two books on tax, the most recent being The Supreme Court's Federal Tax Jurisprudence (2010). He won a taxpayer victory in the Supreme Court of the United States. He received his A.B. from Duke University (summa cum laude), law degree from Yale Law School and LL.M. (in Taxation) from NYU School of Law.
Course: US Domestic Tax Law
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 | Harmen van Dam
Law degree (Leiden, 1991); 1991-1993, associate Loyens & Volkmaars (Amsterdam). LL.M. in Taxation (New York University School of Law, 1996). 1993-1998, Unilever N.V. tax department. From 1998, tax lawyer at Loyens & Loeff, partner since 2001 heading the Transfer Pricing Team at its Rotterdam office.
Course: International Tax Planning
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 | Marcello Distaso
Law degree at the University of Bari, Italy (1996). Master of Italian and International Taxation (University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 1997) and LLM in UK and International Taxation (London, 1998). Joined Baker & McKenzie in 2000 (partner since 2006), specializing in international tax matters at the Amsterdam office. Admitted to the Italian Bar Association and the Dutch Bar Association (as foreign lawyer).
Course: International Tax Planning
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 | Sjoerd Douma
Degrees in tax law, criminal law and civil procedural law (Leiden, 1998 and 2003). PhD (Leiden, 2011). Assistant Professor of EU tax law and procedural tax law at Leiden University. Senior manager at PwC. Substitute judge of the Court of Appeals of Arnhem, the Netherlands. Author and co-author of numerous publications on national, international and European tax law. Member of the permanent committee of contributors to leading Dutch and international tax journals.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Ana Paula Dourado
Ana Paula Dourado is a Professor of Tax Law and European Tax Law at the School of Law, University of Lisbon (www.ideff.pt). Visiting Professor of European Tax Law in other Universities (Uni. of Florida, 2010; WU Vienna, 2010; Global Law School, Catholic Uni. Lisbon (programme directors, Joseph Weiler/Poiares Maduro). Expert at the legal department of the International Monetary Fund. She was a Member of the Centre for Tax Studies at the Ministry of Finance (Portugal) and a delegate for Portugal in working groups for direct tax harmonization at the European Community and in the working group for tax avoidance and evasion at the OECD. Founding member of the GREIT (www.greit-tax.eu). Member of the editorial board of Intertax.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Frank A. Engelen
Law degree (1996, Erasmus University Rotterdam). Doctorate (2004, Erasmus University Rotterdam), dissertation: ‘Interpretation of Tax Treaties under International Law’ (IBFD, 2005). Professor of International Tax Law (2005, Leiden University). Board Member of the International Tax Center Leiden (2005). Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rotterdam (2003).
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Massimo Fabio
Partner at Studio Associato Tax and Legal Services (KPMG correspondent in Italy), in the Rome office where he heads the International Trade and Customs practice. Lecturer for postgraduate courses at various Italian universities. Former officer in the Italian Tax Police and adviser to the European Commission (Phare and Tacis projects), the World Bank and the OECD. Author of Manuale di Diritto e Pratica Doganale (European Customs Law and Practice, IPSOA, 2d ed., 2005).
Courses: Advanced Transfer Pricing, Customs Duties and Excise Taxes
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 | Paul Farmer
Graduated at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manchester (19..). Barrister practicing at Lincoln’s Inn and at Pump Court Tax Chambers, London. Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. Former Legal Adviser to the Director of Tax Policy and Head of Unit (Direct Taxation), Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union at the European Commission and legal secretary to Advocate General Jacobs (Head of Chambers, 1996) at the European Court of Justice. Visiting professor at the European Tax College of the University of Leuven.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Renata Fontana
Born in 1977. Graduated from the Law School of University of São Paulo (2000). Post-graduate degree in tax law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2004). LLM (Adv.) degree in International Tax Law at Leiden University (2005). During 1999-2004, tax advisor with the tax practice group of Levy & Salomão Advogados (Brazil). In 2006, she joined Loyens & Loeff on a part-time basis. Teaching Assistant, Leiden LLM (Adv.) Program in International Tax Law (2005-2006). Academic Coordinator of the Master of Advanced Studies in International Tax Law and Assistant Director of the International Tax Center Leiden (2006-2010). Tax policy analyst at the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD (since June 2010).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Pim Fris
Mr. Fris is a Special consultant in NERA's global transfer pricing practice. He is a leader of the firm's European transfer pricing services and operates from Paris and London. Mr Fris is a frequent lecturer and has published extensively in the area of transfer pricing, tax and economics. Mr Fris completed his degree in economics at Groningen University in the Netherlands specializing in tax and transfer pricing for multinational enterprises.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Malcolm J. Gammie
Barrister. Law Degree (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1972). Former tax partner at Linklaters (1987-1997). Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Research Director for the IFS' Tax Law Review Committee. Past Chairman and Secretary of the IFS' Executive Committee. Chairman Task Force on EC Taxation, Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels 1999-2005). Member Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and Vice-Chairman IFA's UK Branch. Member Inland Revenue's Tax Law Rewrite Consultative Committee. 1998 Unilever Professor of International Business Law, Leiden University. Founding Editor of British Tax Library's Land Taxation. Present, visiting professor at Sydney and Melbourne Universities Law Faculties.
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Julian Ghosh
Law degree from Edinburgh (LLB), LLM (London), Oxford (DPhil). Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn (since 1993) and practicing at Pump Court Tax Chambers (since 1994). Co-author (with T.L. Johnson) of ‘Taxation of Loan Relationships, Financial Investments and Foreign Exchange’ (Butterworths, 1998). Member of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, advising on Scots law.
Lector, Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
LLB (Edinburgh), LLM (London.), DPhil (Oxford), Called: 1993 (Lincoln’s Inn), Queen’s Counsel (2006, England; 2010, Scotland).
Lector, Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
Julian Ghosh is a member of the Revenue Bar Association; Share Schemes Lawyers Group; Bar European Group; International Fiscal Association; International Tax Planning Association.
Julian Ghosh specialises in all forms of tax, especially corporate tax, structured finance, EC tax and VAT. Julian was formerly employed in the tax department of KPMG’s London office. He also practises from Pump Court Tax chambers and 36 Avenue D' Augerham in Brussels and is a member of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, advising on Scots law.
Recent publications:
“The Principles of the Internal Market and Direct Taxation” (2007, Key Haven); co-author (with I L Johnson) of “Taxation of Loan Relationships, Financial Investments and Foreign Exchange”, (Butterworths), various articles and is the Managing Editor of the Corporate Taxation Review.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Jan de Goede
Prof. Jan J.P. de Goede is currently Senior Principal, Tax Knowledge Management at the IBFD Tax Knowledge Centre. He previously held several management positions at the IBFD, lastly the position of Director of the IBFD Knowledge Centre. Before joining the IBFD he was for many years Head of the Bilateral Affairs Division, Directorate for International Tax Policy and Legislation, and also formerly Head of the Company Tax Legislation Division, Directorate for Legislation on Direct Taxes, both at the Dutch Ministry of Finance. While working at the government he was a member of Working Pary 1 on Tax Treaties of the OECD for many years, and was involved in many tax treaty negotiations and in domestic legislation in particular regarding company taxation.
Jan is a part-time Professor of International and European Tax Law at the University of Łódz in Poland and he supervises and lectures on the International and European Tax Law part of the LL.M on Business Law from the VU University of Amsterdam, as well as a similar program for the Pallas LL.M at Essex University. He is also occasionally lecturing at the LL.M. program on International Tax Law at Leiden University and at the University of Sao Paulo, Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest and occasionally at other universities. Finally, he is the IBFD contact person for relations with the OECD and the IBFD observer at the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters.
Course: Tax Treaties
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 | Sébastien Gonnet
Mr. Gonnet is Vice President in NERA's Global Transfer Pricing Practice. Based in Paris, he specializes in the areas of transfer pricing, intellectual property, and valuation. He has authored a number of publications on the economics of transfer pricing. and he is a frequent speaker at transfer pricing, intellectual property, and valuation conferences and training workshops, and has presented to tax authorities in France, Europe, and China.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Stefano Grilli
Graduated in economics at Bocconi University (Milan, 1994). LLM in International Taxation (Leiden, 2003). Ph.D. researcher in Public and Tax Law in the European Dimension at the University of Bergamo, Senior Associate with Di Tanno Studio Legale Tributario in Milan (since 2005). Lecturer in domestic and international taxation at various Italian universities, including Bocconi University (Milan). Chartered tax advisor (member of the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialista, since 1997).
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Peter A. Harris
Law degree from the University of Queensland (1991). Master of Laws (Darwin College, 1992). PhD (Darwin College, 1996). External consultant for the Legal Department of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge and a Tutor and Fellow of Churchill College. Visiting Professor at Georgetown University (US) and the University of Sydney. Author of ‘Corporate / Shareholder Income Taxation’ (IBFD, 1996; IFA's Mitchell B. Carroll Prize 199. and Yorke Prize).
Course: Fundamentals of International Tax Law
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| Luc Hautvast
Mr. Hautvast is a tax inspector, working for the Dutch Tax Authorities, specialised in transfer pricing. Working from the DTA office in Maastricht, in his capacity of member of the nationwide operating coordination group on transfer pricing, Mr. Hautvast is responsible for coordination of transfer pricing issues in the south east region of the Netherlands. Luc is part time teacher at Maastricht University, teaching a course on international tax planning and transfer pricing. Luc studied Dutch Civil Law at Maastricht University and Tax Law at Tilburg University.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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| Mariken van Hilten
Mariken van Hilten studied tax law at Leyden University (1983-1987) and obtained her Phd. in 1992 on the subject of Financial transactions in European VAT. She worked as a VAT and Customs consultant with (what currently is) PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG Meijburg, and was professor of indirect taxes at Leiden University (1997-2002). In 1998 she left tax consultancy and joined the Court of Appeal, first in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and later in Amsterdam, where she was an appellate judge. In 2007 she was appointed Advocate-General in the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (the Dutch Supreme Court). Since 2009 she is also professor of indirect taxation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She had published extensively – mostly in Dutch – on VAT and customs law and is (co-)editor of the tax magazine Vakstudie Nieuws.
Course: Value-Added Tax Law
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 | Danny Houben
Danny Houben is Transfer Pricing Advisor with Shell International BV, in The Hague. As the global Transfer Pricing Advisor for Exploration & Production (EP), Renewables and some service organizations (e.g. IT), he is involved in the arm’s length operation of their global cost sharing systems and is responsible for providing transfer pricing, planning and structuring advice for their global intercompany transactions. He is also involved in audit defence and advance pricing agreements. Further, as project manager, he leads the global transfer pricing documentation programme for all global intercompany transactions within the Shell Group, covering over 140 countries. Before joining Shell, Mr Houben worked with KPMG, and later with Deloitte, in international tax and transfer pricing in the Netherlands and the United States. His experience includes transfer pricing in relation to cost sharing, transfer pricing in relation to financial services, supply chain structuring and transfer pricing, Dutch and international corporate taxation and transfer pricing of multinational companies. Mr Houben is a member of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Herman W.M. van Kesteren
Herman is an Indirect Taxes Partner based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with over 20 years experience and is currently responsible for knowledge management and litigation in the field of VAT.
Course: Value-Added Tax Law
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 | Scott Levine
Professor Levine is a partner in the tax practice group of Jones Day. Professor Levine advises on the tax aspects of corporate transactions, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and other divestitures, restructurings, financings, and joint ventures. He has also has negotiated private letter rulings with the Internal Revenue Service in the corporate, financial instruments, and energy credit tax areas. He has advised on the tax aspects of structuring cross-border acquisitions and financial instruments. Before joining Jones Day, Mr. Levine was a senior manager in the national tax office of KPMG. Mr. Levine is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches a course on corporate taxation and has been an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he taught courses on corporate and international taxation. He has lectured at internal continuing professional education programs and participated as a panelist on programs addressing a wide range of topics from corporate tax to electronic commerce issues. Mr. Levine is vice chair of the D.C. Bar Tax Section's Corporate Tax Committee.
Course: US Domestic Tax Law
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 | Lawrence Lokken
Law degree from University of Minnesota (1967). Professor and Eminent Scholar in Taxation at the University of Florida (since 1994). Professor at New York University (1980–93). Visiting professor at several prominent universities worldwide, including University of Minnesota (1973–74), Duke University (1988), Münster University, Germany (1999–2009), Rand Afrikaans University (2001), Warsaw University, Poland (2000, 2002, 2008), Southern Methodist University (2003), and Northwestern University (2004–2005).
Courses: US International Tax Law, US Domestic Tax Law
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 | Raymond Luja
Graduated in fiscal economics at Maastricht University (1998) and Law (Open University, 2001). Doctorate (Maastricht, 2003). Professor of Comparative Tax Law at Maastricht University (since 2006). Part-time tax consultant and fiscal state aid specialist at Loyens & Loeff N.V. in Amsterdam (since 2001).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | William H. Lyons
Graduated from Boston College Law School (Newton, Mass., 1973). Richard H. Larson Professor of Tax Law (University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1999). Professor-in-Residence in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (Washington, D.C., 1987-1988). Fellow and Regent of the American College of Tax Counsel.
Course: US Domestic Tax Law
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 | Timothy Lyons
PhD (London). CTA (Fellow). Barrister of Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and King’s Inns (Dublin). Author of ‘EC Customs Law’ (Oxford University Press, 2001). Editor of IBFD’s The International Guide to the Taxation of Trusts. Assistant Editor of European Law section of the British Tax Review. Founder, and Consultant Editor, of the EC Tax Journal. Member of the committee of STEP’s Cross Border Group.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Guglielmo Maisto
Guglielmo Maisto is a Professor of International Tax Law at the Catholic University of Piacenza; he has acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and is the Chairman of the delegated Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam.
He represents the Italian Association of Industries at the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris and he is a member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum.
He is a member of several law societies internationally and of the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals. He is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and has acted as general and national reporter at several of its annual congresses.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Jan Martens
April 2004 – current: Global Transfer Pricing Services, Chief Economist, Partner, Fidal Direction Internationale (FDI), Paris Chief Economist and Lead Partner of FDI’s Global Transfer Pricing Services. In addition to the responsibilities assumed in London (please refer below), responsible for all valuation work conducted by FDI after having passed the American Society of Appraisers examinations. This includes valuation of Intangible Property Rights, companies and separate cash generating units. Assumed responsibility for clients in the following industries: pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, financial services, (re)insurance, automotive, Energy and Natural Resources, and Information, Communication and Entertainment. Contributed to the review and commentary on the OECD Discussion Drafts Part I, II and III, as part of a multinational team lead by KPMG International HQ, and assisted to the public counselling sessions organised by the OECD. In addition, defended various clients in multiple tax audits, including negotiations with all levels of the International Departments (DVNI) and Regional Departments (Dircofi) of the French Tax Authorities, as well representing these clients before Departmental Commissions. Liaised with Competent Authorities in Mutual Agreement Procedures/European Arbitration Convention procedures.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Martin McMahon
Law degree from Boston College. LL.M. in Taxation (Boston University) . Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law (1997). Member of: American College of Tax Counsel, American Law Institute, American Bar Association Section on Taxation, Association of American Law Schools, National Tax Association, Theodore Tannenwald Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship (Academic Advisory Board).
Course: US Domestic Tax Law
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 | Paulus Merks
Graduated in tax law at the University of Amsterdam (1994). LL.M. in US taxation from the University of San Francisco (2002). Author and co-author of books and articles on international tax law and a regular speaker at international tax conferences both in Europe and the United States. In addition Paulus lectures at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (Academie voor wetgeving) and the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD). Paulus is an international tax partner with DLA Piper LLP, based in Amsterdam and currently on assignment in the DLA Piper New York office. Paulus is an expert in domestic and international tax law, advising on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, reorganisations, financial products and structured finance transactions. He has an extensive practice advising US based and non-US based corporate groups in respect to structuring their operations and acquisitions around the globe. Before joining DLA Piper, Paulus worked for Ernst & Young in Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Chicago and San Jose. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association, the European-American Tax Institute and the Group for Research on European and International Taxation.
Course: International Tax Planning
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 | Margaret Nettinga
Law degree from Leiden University. Lecturer in legal and fiscal English. Free-lance editor and translator. Former member of the research staff of the IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) and editor of the monthly scientific journal European Taxation (1991-2005).
Course: Adv LLM papers
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 | Danny Oosterhoff
Mr. Oosterhoff is a partner with Ernst & Young, responsible for the transfer pricing group in Amsterdam. He has extensive experience in transfer pricing planning, in particular with regard to the design, optimization and implementation of transfer pricing systems that align business and tax objectives. He is a frequent contributor to Dutch and international professional journals on a variety of transfer pricing matters and regularly speaks at forums and events
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | René van der Paardt
René N.G. van der Paardt (1952), tax lawyer, is a member of the practice group VAT, Customs and International Trade of Loyens & Loeff N.V. He renders advice on VAT and transfer tax to various banks, insurance companies, pension funds, property funds, property developers, municipalities and housing corporations. René is also part-time professor in indirect taxes at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He also lectures at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate. He is a member of the IFA, the European VAT Club and the Association of Real Estate Advisors and has written many articles on VAT and real estate transfer tax.
Courses: Value-Added Tax Law, Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Trudy Perié
Trudy Perié (1962), tax adviser, is a member of the VAT, customs and international trade practice group of Loyens & Loeff N.V. She specialises in VAT, customs and excise duties, and is involved in real estate transactions, international trade, the finance sector (securitisations, holdings, investment funds), as well as the energy sector. She also focuses on healthcare-related work.
Course: Value-Added Tax Law
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| A. Luisa Perrotti
Luisa has been head of the Tax Treaty & MAP Unit (2009 and 2010-2011) and of the Consulting and Coordinating Unit (2005-2009) at the Department of Finance, International Relations Office of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. During her time in these capacities she has participated extensively in OECD and UN work on international taxation. Since March 2011, she works in the Secretariat to the Board of the Italian Authority in charge of public contracts. She received her PhD from Oxford University after obtaining her law degree and Masters’ degree from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. She is an alumna of the French ENA (CIC 2009-2010). In 1991, she qualified at the Rome Bar (Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati e Procuratori di Roma). She has taught at LSE (London), Cambridge and Oxford Universities (UK) and Insead (Fontainebleau-France).
Course: Tax Treaties
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 | Mario Petriccione
Mario Petriccione is a Director in the International Corporate Tax Group of KPMG in London. He joined the KPMG London office in 1980 after completing his education in Naples, Italy, and then Cambridge, UK. He has worked full time for many years on cross-border tax planning for multinationals and has extensive knowledge and practical experience of the tax systems of many countries in Europe and elsewhere. As well as working with UK multinationals to structure outbound investment from the UK, Mr Petriccione has assisted many non-European multinationals to structure their European operations. These include, among others, US, Canadian, Australian and Hong Kong SAR groups. He has also assisted several non-European groups in M&A transactions in Europe.
Course: International Tax Planning
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 | Giandomenico Petronella
Mr. Petronella is an Associate Partner of Valdani Vicari & Associati. He is in charge of the Expert Opinion business unit. He is involved as project manager of several projects related to evaluations of companies and intangible assets, commercial litigations, and to Transfer Pricing such as assessment and evaluation of existing transfer pricing policies; design and implementation of new policies; management of APAs and MAPs.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Hans Pijl
Linguistics (1978) and law degree from Leiden University (1987). Partner at Deloitte Amsterdam. Part time judge in the Hague Tax Court of Appeals. Lecturer of International Tax law at Leiden University. Member of the editorial board of the Dutch scientific series on international taxation and European Taxation. Non-governmental expert in the United Nations sub-Group of Experts for the definition of the PE-Article (until 2010).Frequent lecturer on International Tax Law, e.g. at the IBFD since 2000, at the Training Institute for Dutch Tax Inspectors (1994-1996), the Board of Dutch Tax Advisers (1997-1999), the Postgraduate International Program for Chartered Controllers (1999), the Chinese Ministry of Finance (1999 and 2001), the Sri Lanka International Tax Congress (1999), the University of Florida (2000), the Finnish tax authorities (2004), the University of London (2004), the CIOT congress in Amsterdam (2005); the Norwegian tax authorities (COFTA)(2005); the Danish Ministry of Finance (2005); the University of Milan (2005); The Quest for the Holy Grail in International Tax Law (2006, Leiden), the International Taxation Conference (Mumbai 2007).
Course: Tax Treaties
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 | Alfonso Rivolta
Laurea magistrale (combined B.A. and M.Sc.) (Hons.) in Law and Business Administration (Bocconi University, 2004). Post-graduate M.Sc. in Corporate Tax Law (Bocconi University, 2006). Adv. LL.M. (Hons., IBFD Award and Malcolm Gammie Award for the best paper) in International Tax Law (ITC Leiden, 2009).
Director at UBS AG Switzerland, where he works in the Wealth Planning division leading the Italy Clients & Products Tax Services team. Previously associate at leading Italian tax and law firms in Milan (since 2005).
Lecturer in domestic and international taxation at post-graduate courses and conferences in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and Singapore. Previously Teaching Assistant for the Adv. LL.M. at ITC Leiden. Author of some articles on international and EU taxation topics.
Dottore Commercialista (Italian Chartered Tax advisor admitted before Tax Courts) and Revisore Legale (Chartered Auditor). Member of IFA and of the Swiss Bankers’ association.
Alfonso graduated in Violin and Orchestral Conducting and conducted some concerts in Italy and Russia.
Course Coordinator for Individual Wealth and Tax Planning.
Courses: Individual Wealth and Tax Planning, EU Tax Law
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 | H. David Rosenbloom
H. David Rosenbloom became the Director of the International Tax Program in 2002. He is a member of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, a firm he rejoined in 1981 after serving as International Tax Counsel and Director, Office of International Tax Affairs, in the U.S. Treasury Department from 1978 to 1981. He has also served as Tax Policy Advisor for the U.S. Treasury, the OECD, AID, and the World Bank in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Senegal, Malawi, and South Africa. Professor Rosenbloom's major areas of practice include international tax controversies, transfer pricing planning and disputes, advance pricing agreements, the foreign tax credit, tax treaties, financial products and financial institutions, and international aspects of corporate and individual tax planning. He is the author of numerous articles on international tax issues.
Course: US International Tax Law
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 | Antonio Russo
Antonio Russo has a M.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics and Business Administration from Bocconi University (Milan, 1997). Certified Public Accountant and Certified Auditor (Dottore Commercialista e Revisore Ufficiale dei Conti), Universitá dell’Insubria (Varese, Italy, A.Y. 2001). Executive MBA (Hons.) in International Management from the University of Edinburgh Management School and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées School of International Management, Paris (2003). LL.M. (Hons.) in International Tax Law from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (2004). Tax advisor, member of Nederlandse Orde van Belastingadviseurs.
Courses: Advanced Transfer Pricing, Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Raffaele Russo
Law degree from University Federico II (Naples). LLM in International Taxation (Leiden, 2002). Tax Treaty Advisor at OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (since 2007). Author of several articles on international tax matters and editor of the book ‘The Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments: The taxation of intracompany dealings in 2005’. Junior Fellow of the International Tax Center Leiden.
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law, International Tax Planning
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 | Alexandar Rust
Born in 1973. He studied law with a specialization in tax law in Freiburg (Breisgau), Geneva and Munich. During his Referendariat (legal traineeship) he worked as an assistant judge and as a public prosecutor at the High Court of Munich, as a law clerk at the Ministry of Finance and as a tax advisor in private practice. In 2001 he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Munich, in 2008/2009 he worked as Acting Assistant Professor at New York University. Since 2010 he is associate professor for tax law at the University of Luxembourg. His PhD thesis on the compatibility of CFC legislation with tax treaty and EC law won the European Academic Tax Thesis Award. Alexander Rust is specialized in international tax law as well as European tax law.
Course: Tax Treaties
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 | Eric D. Ryan
Eric D. Ryan concentrates in international tax planning, transfer pricing, post merger integration of legal entities and operations and tax controversy. He has over 25 years of experience, both as a tax partner advisor and an internal corporate tax director, on key international tax structuring issues. His clients are primarily in the high technology industry, including software, hardware, semiconductors and life sciences companies.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Dhaval J. Sanghavi
Master of Commerce (University of Mumbai, 2004), Chartered Accountant (India, 2004), LL.M. in International Tax (Leiden University, 2005). Joined Jitendra Sanghavi & Co. in 2008 (partner since 2010) with a focus on international tax and regulatory services for Indian and foreign clients in respect to inbound/outbound investments, EPC/infrastructure contracts, JVs, M&A and transaction advisory services. Speaker at international tax seminars in India, contributor to international tax journals and committee member of international tax associations in India.
Courses: International Tax Planning, Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Jacques Sasseville
Degrees in law and accounting (including Master's degrees in both law and taxation). Former professor in the Department of Accounting, University of Quebec (Montreal). Head of the Tax Treaty Unit of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD.
Course: Tax Treaties
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| Francesco Scandone
Mr. Scandone is an Associate at Bonelli Erede Pappalardo since 2008. He has lectured in Taxation and International Taxation for many years at several universities and master programmes, at the most renowned international tax and law conferences. With particular reference to transfer pricing, he has been actively involved in several projects concerning transfer pricing documentation, MAP/APAs procedures and tax litigations.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Jonathan Schwarz
Mr.Schwarz is a Visiting Professor at King's College London. He practices as an English Barrister at Temple Tax Chambers in London. His practice focuses on international tax planning and tax disputes involving international issues. He is Chairman of the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Appointments have included first vice president, International Fiscal Association; editorial advisory board, Business Law International, United Kingdom’s participant on the 2005-2006 joint OECD-IFA research project on Practical Application of Tax Treaties, editor FT World Tax Report; vice-chair, International Bar Association, Tax Section.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Bruno da Silva
Teaching Associate
Bruno works at Loyens & Loeff European Direct Tax Law team and he is a trainee research assistant at the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) where he has been lecturing some courses and seminars on European and International Tax issues. He is also a Tax Treaty advisor for the Macao SAR (PR of China) He is currently pursuing a PhD in European Tax Law at UvA.
Bruno has been writing on International and European Tax Law issues on several periodicals and he is a correspondent for Highlights & Insights on European Taxation and for EU Tax Alert. Bruno was born in Portugal and obtained his LL.M (Master of Laws) in International Tax Law from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business where he was granted the Siemens Tax Award for the best thesis which dealt with Tax Treaty interpretation. He received his law degree from the University of Lisbon. He holds a Postgraduate degree in Corporate Tax Management from the Technical University of Lisbon, a Postgraduate degree in Taxation from Instituto Superior de Gestao and a Postgraduate degree in Domestic and International Tax Planning from the University of Lisbon. He previously worked for several years as a tax lawyer in Portugal for the law firm Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira, dealing with International and European Tax Law issues.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Stefano Simontacchi
Stefano Simontacchi is a partner in the Milan office and is a member of the firm’s Partners Executive Committee.
He focuses on tax law, with particular emphasis on legal opinions, real estate transactions, real estate and equity funds, private equity, M&A and reorganisations, transfer pricing, and fiscal planning.
Courses: Advanced Transfer Pricing, Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties
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 | Richard Slimmen
Law degree from University of Tilburg (The Netherlands). Former tax inspector with the Dutch tax administration and Senior advisor at the International Tax Policy & Legislation Directorate of the Dutch Ministry of Finance. Worked 4 years for a Big 4 firm in their Transfer Pricing practice. Currently partner at Transfer Pricing Associates. Frequent speaker on seminars on transfer pricing (including courses organised by the OECD, IBFD and KPMG)
Specific expertise in (alternative) dispute resolution.
As former head of the Dutch APA practice involved in numerous APA’s. These include unilateral, bilateral as well as multilateral APA’s. Also acted as competent authority in several bilateral/multilateral APA’s.
Experience with Mutual Agreement Procedures and EU arbitration.
Excellent expertise in government perspective in transfer pricing including policy considerations.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Frans Sonneveldt
Professor at the Utrecht University (since 2001). Partner at Mazars Paardekooper Hoffman Tax Consultants, department of Estate Planning, in Rotterdam (since 1996)
Course: Individual Wealth and Tax Planning
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 | Christoph Spengel
Christoph Spengel, born 1964 in Heidelberg, is a Professor for International Taxation at the University of Mannheim. He studied Business Economics in Mannheim (Dipl.-Kfm. 1990, Dr. rer. pol. 1995, Dr. rer. pol. habil. 2002 (all at Mannheim). Furthermore, Christoph is an elected member of the Scientific Council of the German Federal Ministry of Finance, Research Associate at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim, International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Center for Business Taxation, Saïd Business School, and Academic Director of the Executive Master of Accounting & Taxation at the Mannheim Business School.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Dirk Van Stappen
Master degree in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, 1987), Degree in taxation from the Fiscale Hogeschool (Brussels, 1989), Partner at KPMG Tax & Legal Advisers (Belgium, Antwerp), visiting professor at the University of Antwerp (since
1996), business member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum (since 2001).
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | John P. Steines, Jr.
John P. Steines, Jr. received a degree in engineering from General Motors Institute in 1971 and worked for General Motors Corporation before receiving his J.D. from Ohio State University College of Law in 1974 (summa cum laude, Order of the Coif). Steines practiced law for three years in Grand Rapids, Michigan and then, as a Gerald L. Wallace Scholar, received an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1978. He became an instructor at NYU and two years later joined the permanent faculty. Steines’s teaching includes classes in basic personal and corporate income tax for J.D. students and a wide variety of LL.M. courses in corporate and partnership taxation, consolidated tax returns, tax accounting, international aspects of U.S. taxation, and tax policy. Formerly counsel for many years to Weil, Gotshal & Manges and since 2004 to Cooley LLP (formerly Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman), Steines’s practice focuses on corporate, partnership, and international tax matters. He frequently testifies as an expert in U.S. and foreign tax or tax-related controversies. A former editor-in-chief of the Tax Law Review, his scholarship includes a casebook, International Aspects of U.S. Income Taxation, and several articles on corporate, partnership, and international issues. He was recently named author of the Bittker and Eustice treatise on Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders.
Course: US International Tax Law
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 | Eelco van der Stok
Law degree from Leiden University (1992), and LL.M programme on Emory University, Atlanta. Loyens & Volkmaars (1994-1998). Partner Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (1999- ). Editor of Taxation of Derivatives and Financial Instruments and a regular contributor to international publications. Listed in The European Legal 500 and the International Tax Review survey as ‘leading individual’.
Course: Tax Treaties
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 | William P. Streng
Northwestern University School of Law (1962). Mr. Streng is the Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center where (since 1985) he has taught courses in federal income tax, corporate tax, estate planning and international taxation. From 1980 until 1985, Mr. Streng was the partner in charge of the tax department at Bracewell & Patterson (presently Bracewell & Giuliani), a Houston-based law firm. He continues as a consultant with the firm. Prior to 1980 he was (from 1973 through 1979) a Professor of Law at the School of Law, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Course: US International Tax Law
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 | Laurent Sykes
Laurent Sykes has a wide ranging practice which includes business tax, employment tax and private client matters, in both the advisory and litigation contexts. He advises on business taxation at both the company and shareholder level, including on VAT, stamp taxes, customs duties, the tax treatment of Islamic finance and international tax (including EU law). He has a special interest in the interplay between tax and accounting, and in the taxation of partnerships. On the employment side he advises on remuneration planning, status disputes and PAYE matters. His private client practice is broad but has a particular focus on the tax treatment of non-UK domiciled individuals. Litigation is an important part of his work and has taken him to the Tax Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
Course: Tax Treaties
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 | Rita Szudoczky
Teaching Associate
Rita Szudoczky is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam working on her thesis with Professor Dennis Weber and Professor Pasquale Pistone as her supervisors. Her research topic is about the relationship and interaction of various norms of EU law in the field of direct taxation.
Before starting her PhD research, Rita worked for three years in the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam where she contributed to several IBFD publications, launched a new database on the direct tax case law of Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) and worked on consultancy projects, inter alia, on a case litigated in front of the CJ involving regional fiscal autonomies and State aid. At the Tax Academy of the IBFD she was teaching and designing courses on various topics of international and European tax law. Before the IBFD, Rita worked for the Budapest office of Linklaters as a trainee lawyer on the Tax Department. Rita published several articles and teaches various courses and seminars on European tax law.
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 | Mario Tenore
Mario Tenore practices at Maisto e Associati, Milan, Italy. Graduated in Economics (2003). He has a PhD (cum laude) in tax law (II University of Naples) and an LLM degree (cum laude) in International Taxation (Leiden University).
Until 2009, He was EURYI-ESF Researcher of the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, Vienna (Austria) and researcher at the University of Salerno (Italy).
Meanwhile, he was also practicing at Studio Pistone (Naples).
He was one of the Italian national reporters for the IFA congress held in Brussels in 2008. He is the author of a number of articles and contributions both on European and International Tax Law.
He speaks Italian, English, French and German (basic).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Christa Tobler
Prof. R.C. (Ruth Christa) Tobler is professor of European Law at the Universities of Basel (Switzerland, and Leiden. Professor Tobler studied law at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) where she obtained her law degree in 1985. In 1989 she was awarded the Ph.D., based on a thesis on Swiss trade mark law. Thereafter Prof. Tobler worked as researcher at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center (Japan) and as a court clerk in Switzerland. In 1992 she passed the Zurich bar exam and then worked as an attorney-at-law. In 1994 she was awarded the degree, LL.M. in European Community Law” at the University of Leiden. During her studies in Leiden, she also was Winning Advocate General in the European Law Moot Court Competition. This resulted in a stage at the European Court of Justice (November 1994). Prof. Tobler then spent the first half of 1995 as a researcher in an interdisciplinary research programme at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). In August 1995 she returned to Leiden where she worked as academic coordinator of the LL.M. Programme in European Community Law. In 1998 she was appointed part-time lecturer of gender law at the University of Basel (Switzerland). In 2000, she was appointed associate professor of European Law. In 2004, Prof. Tobler finished the “Habilition” procedure, which made her eligible as regular professor for Swiss public law, European law and gender law. In 2005 she was appointed regular professor of European law at the University of Basel, and in 2007 at the University of Leiden. Prof. Tobler is a member of the editorial board of the Swiss Review of International and European Law and of the European Commission’s Network of legal experts in the anti-discrimination field (concerning Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC). She is also an enthusiastic Moot Court judge (regional level) for European Law Moot Court Competition.
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 | Ágata Uceda
Ágata is EMEA Transfer Pricing Director at DLA Piper. She is based in Amsterdam.
Ágata has more than 12 years' experience working in the transfer pricing field. She advises multinationals on a variety of transfer pricing issues, including: due diligence before acquisitions or reorganisations, planning and designing efficient transfer pricing policies when they are not in place or they need to be realigned with the business strategy, and valuing intangible and other assets for tax and legal purposes. She also has experience in negotiating and concluding unilateral and multilateral Advance Pricing Agreements and defending complex transfer pricing audits.
Course: Transfer Pricing Rules in International Taxation
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 | Alexander Voegele
Mr. Voegele is a Special consultant in NERA's global transfer pricing practice. During more than 25 years advising international corporations and leading law firms on transfer pricing issues. Mr. Voegele regularly publishes articles and books on transfer pricing and international tax planning and is a regular speaker at more than 250 conferences and seminars on transfer pricing and international taxation in Germany, Europe, the US, and Asia.
Course: Advanced Transfer Pricing
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 | Hugo Vollebregt
With over 25 years of experience in international tax Hugo specializes in dispute resolution in transfer pricing matters. He has favourably settled countless complicated tax audits and has concluded numerous APAs. He is a frequent speaker on tax conferences and regularly lectures at various universities. He is one of the independent experts for the advisory committee of the EU Arbitration Convention.
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 | Dennis Weber
LLM from University of Tilburg. Professor of European tax law at the University of Amsterdam (2006). Academic coordinator of the European and International Tax Law specialisation module of the LL.M. Postgraduate Programme in European Business Law of the Amsterdam Law School. Tax lawyer (adviser on European tax law) at Loyens & Loeff and head of Loyens & Loeff’s EC tax desk. Deputy judge at the Court of Appeals of ‘s Hertogenbosch. Member of the European Tax Law Group.
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 | Stef van Weeghel
Degrees in commercial law and tax law (Leiden). LLM in taxation (New York). PhD (University of Amsterdam). Professor of international tax law at the University of Amsterdam. Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Author and co-author of several books and numerous articles on international taxation. Serves on the boards of a number of academic and professional organisations.
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 | Joanna Wheeler
Joanna Wheeler, TEP, is a member of the IBFD academic group. Previously, she was the editor of many different IBFD publications, and the founding editor of IBFD’s loose-leaf publication The International Guide to the Taxation of Trusts. Ms Wheeler was the pioneer of IBFD's programme of online courses, and before that she taught regularly for IBFD classroom courses. She also gives regular guest seminars for the universities of Cambridge, Leiden, London (Queen Mary College) and Neuchatel. Ms Wheeler was a member of the Research Subcommittee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) for many years, and was general reporter for the IFA Congress held in Kyoto in 2007 on the topic “Conflicts in the Attribution of Income to a person”.
Joanna Wheeler TEP is an author and co-author of the following online courses:
Residence (author)
Permanent Establishments (co-author)
Fundamentals of Tax Treaties (co-author)
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 | Wim Wijnen
Lecturer in international tax law at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS, Rome). Counsel to the Academic Chair at the IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation). Part-time judge of the Court of Appeal, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands). Former tax treaty negotiator for the Dutch Ministry of Finance (1979-1991) and tax advisor with Loyens and Volkmaars (Rotterdam, 1991-1993). Author of several contributions on Dutch, European and international tax issues.
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