Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Henry J Birnkrant
Alston & Bird LLP
The Atlantic Building
950 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004-1404
US
Tel: (1) 202 756 3319
Fax: (1) 202 654 4929
Email: hbirnkrant@alston.com
Website: www.alston.com
Mr Birnkrant is a member of Alston & Bird and co-chairs its tax section. His practice is
focused on transfer-pricing matters and US taxation of various types of domestic and
cross-border transactions.
Mr Birnkrant has resolved numerous transfer-pricing disputes with the IRS at the
examination and appeals levels. His practice has also included securing competent
authority relief from transfer-pricing adjustments initiated by both the IRS and foreign
tax authorities. He helped to develop the APA programme by filing a request for an APA
eight months before the IRS released the Revenue Procedure that created the APA
program. He is at the forefront of helping multinationals secure innovative APAs that
satisfy both their business objectives and the requirements of the tax authorities.
Mr Birnkrant also advises multinationals on minimizing the tax burden of cross-border
transactions and operations. Examples of such matters include acquisitions and
dispositions of US and foreign business operations, structures for the financing,
development and ownership of intangible property, and reorganization of cross-border
business operations.
Mr Birnkrant is chair of the competent authority subcommittee of the transfer-pricing
committee of the ABA Tax Section, chair of the tax treaty subcommittee of the taxation
committee of the United States Council for International Business, a member of the
board of advisers of the Journal of International Taxation, a member of the Thomson West
Tax Advisory Board, a member of the Washington International Tax Study Group, an
invited participant in the OECD Transfer Pricing Experts advisory meetings, and a
member of the American College of Tax Counsel.
He is co-author of A Practical Guide to US Transfer Pricing and author or co-author of
numerous articles on cross-border taxation and transfer pricing. He is listed in the 11th
edition of Who’s Who in American Law, the 19th edition of Who’s Who in the World, the
2005 edition of Who’s Who in America, the 4th edition of Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders
in America, Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Best of the Best 2005, Euromoney Legal
Media Group 2004 Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers, and the 11th
edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr Birnkrant is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Rochester, from which
he received his BA, magna cum laude, with high distinction in economics. He received his
JD from Columbia University School of Law and an LLM in taxation from New York
University School of Law. He is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and the Bars
of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the US Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit, the US Tax Court and the US Court of Federal Claims.
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