Chris Bale | December 18, 2009
[private]Thomas Lanning, CPA, has joined J.H. Cohn LLP, one of the 15 largest accounting and consulting firms in the United States, as a tax partner in the Firm’s Not-For-Profit Industry Practice. He will be based in the Firm’s Manhattan office, located at 1212 Avenue of the Americas.
Lanning, 54, joins J.H. Cohn from one of the [...]
Chris Bale | December 18, 2009
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announces that [private]Kendall Jones has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the Tax Practice Group, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Jones, who recently retired from KPMG, will advise clients on tax controversy matters, focusing on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) procedural, controversy and dispute resolution cases as [...]
Chris Bale | December 17, 2009
Huet, 40, currently Chief Financial Officer at Bristol-Myers Squibb, will join the business on 1st January 2010. He will be proposed for election to the boards of Unilever NV and PLC at the Annual General Meetings in May 2010.
Paul Polman, Unilever Chief Executive said “We are delighted to have attracted a candidate of Jean-Marc’s talent [...]
Chris Bale | December 16, 2009
Philadelphia-based [private]David J.Gutowski is a member of the State and Local Tax Group. His practice involves handling multi-state sales tax and corporate tax controversies and appeals, including state tax litigation for corporate clients before administrative boards and courts in various jurisdictions[/private]
Reed Smith is a global relationship law firm with nearly 1,600 lawyers in 23 offices [...]
Chris Bale | December 15, 2009
[private]Nick Foster-Taylor, a transfer pricing expert has joined CMS Cameron McKenna LLP as Head of Transfer Pricing, with effect from Monday 7th December 2009. Although not a lawyer, he will advise alongside the firm’s corporate tax team.
Nick has some 18 years experience in the field of transfer pricing, originally at KPMG and a Managing [...]
Chris Bale | December 13, 2009
[private]Apollo Group, Inc. has elected Mr. Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., to its Board of Directors
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., most recently served as global chief executive officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (“PwC”), a leading provider of accounting, tax and advisory services, retiring in September 2009 after 36 years with PwC. Previously, Mr. DiPiazza was a leading [...]
Chris Bale | December 10, 2009
[private]Rosemary D. Marcuss will join the Internal Revenue Service as Director for Research, Analysis and Statistics, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman announced today.
Marcuss comes to the IRS from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce, where she served as Deputy Director and participated in the production of U.S. national economic statistics such as [...]
Chris Bale | December 8, 2009
Miller Canfield has announced that tax lawyer, [private]Gregory A. Nowak, J.D., CPA, one of Michigan’s leading experts on state and local tax issues, has re-joined the firm in its Business Litigation and Trial Group. He will specialize in state and local taxation.
Nowak began his legal career at Miller Canfield and has spent the past 16 [...]
Chris Bale | December 7, 2009
The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service, [private]Mr Oupa Magashula, was elected unanimously as the chairperson of the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) at its inaugural conference in Kampala, Uganda.
The conference also unanimously voted for South Africa to host the secretariat of the new African tax body.
ATAF’s goal is to become the central platform [...]
Chris Bale | December 7, 2009
National law firm McGrigors has appointed [private]Jeremy Maynes and David Barron, both former senior KPMG partners, as Senior Advisers to their market leading Tax Disputes & Investigations practice.
This brings the total number of tax specialists who have joined McGrigors from accountancy firms to six, including a team of three who joined from Tenon in July.
Jeremy [...]
Chris Bale | December 2, 2009
President Barroso has appointed [private]Algirdas Semeta as the new Commissioner designate for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud.[/private]
Chris Bale | December 2, 2009
Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corporation, a leading Southern California accounting and consulting firm with 83 years in business, has announced that [private]Brian Yacker will serve as the Chair for the Office of Professional Responsibility Subgroup (OPR) for the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC).
“This appointment by the IRSAC is a testament to Brian’s expertise and [...]
Chris Bale | December 1, 2009
Latham & Watkins has announced just 2 new tax partners in its round of promotions this year.
The tax attorneys elected to the partnership are:[private]
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Julie Marion is a tax attorney with a diverse practice advising companies on business acquisitions, joint ventures, insolvency and restructurings, tax planning and international tax matters. She devotes a significant amount of [...]
Chris Bale | December 1, 2009
Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, a leading Northern California law firm, today announced that [private]David S. Howard, JD, CPA has joined the firm. Howard, dual licensed as a CPA and attorney for nearly 40 years, recently returned to the practice of law after completing a 20+ year career as a Tax Partner with Deloitte Tax [...]
