Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Melvin S Adess
KPMG
303 E Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601-5255
US
Tel: (1) 312 665 5704
Email: madess@kpmg.com
Website: www.kpmg.com
Mel Adess is a partner in the federal tax practice and a member of KPMG’s Midwest tax
leadership. He received his BS from Northwestern University with highest distinction in
1966, majoring in accounting and economics, and passed the Illinois CPA exam in
November 1966. While at Northwestern, Mr Adess was inducted into Phi Eta Sigma
(Freshman National Honor Society), Beta Gamma Sigma (National Business Honor
Society) and Beta Alpha Psi (National Accounting Honor Society). He also won the
Haskins and Sells Award in 1966 and the State Farm Exceptional Student Fellowship the
same year. He received his JD, cum laude, from The University of Chicago Law School,
where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, and passed the Illinois Bar exam in 1969.
He joined KPMG LLP (US) in August 1999, after a 30-year career at Kirkland & Ellis,
where he was a senior tax partner and a member of the management committee for nine
years. His practice consists of foreign tax planning, inter-company transfer pricing, crossborder
mergers and acquisitions, international joint ventures, contested tax matters, and
executive compensation.
Mr Adess has taught various international tax and reorganization subjects at
Northwestern University Law School, DePaul Law School, and DePaul Graduate School
of Business. In addition, he has lectured frequently at various conferences including The
University of Chicago Federal Income Tax Conference, Colorado Springs Tax Institute,
Practising Law Institute, Illinois Institute on Continuing Legal Education, Chicago Bar
Association, World Trade Institute, Tax Executives Institute, International Fiscal
Association, the George Washington University/IRS Sixth Annual Institute on Current
Issues in International Taxation, the American Conference Institute on Transfer Pricing,
and numerous other groups. Mr Adess has also published articles on a variety of technical
tax subjects.
He served as a consultant to the American Law Institute on the International Aspects of
US Income Taxation Project, which resulted in a number of important changes to the
Internal Revenue Code made by the 1986 Tax Reform Bill. Mr Adess has been included
in The Best Lawyers in America and has been listed in the International Tax Review annual
survey of leading tax advisers as among the top tax advisers in the central US.
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