Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Kai Hielscher
Deloitte Tax LLP
c/o Deloitte, 111 S Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60101-6438
US
Tel: (1) 312 486 9336 (o) / (1) 312 375 6336 (c)
Fax: (1) 312 247 9336
Email: khielscher@deloitte.com
Website: www.deloitte.com
Kai Hielscher is in charge of Deloitte’s life sciences global industry practice in transfer
pricing, as well as Deloitte Tax’s US transfer-pricing team, based in Chicago. Previously,
he had helped build a managing function for the transfer-pricing team in Japan.
He has been recognized as one of the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers for Japan
by the bi-annual Euromoney survey in 2000, as one of the World’s Leading Transfer
Pricing Advisers for the US by Euromoney in 2002, 2004 and 2006, and as a Highly
Recommended Adviser for the US in the 2003 International Tax Review survey.
Building on his tri-cultural background, Dr Hielscher has worked as project leader on
complex transfer-pricing projects for both North American and foreign
multinationals. He also serves as relationship leader for some of the organization’s
largest clients. Examples of his recent projects include:
• transfer-pricing exam defence assistance in the US and various EU and Asian
countries;
• ground-breaking profit-split-based US APAs for leading pharmaceutical companies;
• intangibles migration and supply chain restructuring projects involving Asia, Europe
and North America for various leading manufacturers of medical products; and
• global documentation and planning projects for Fortune 100 companies.
Dr Hielscher has been invited to speak at, or chair, various transfer-pricing sessions in
the US, Asia and Europe at conferences sponsored by, among others, the American
Bar Association (ABA), the Tax Executives Institute (TEI), Alliance for Tax, Legal and
Accounting Seminars (Atlas), Council for International Tax Education (Cite), AIC
Conferences (Great Britain), the International Chamber of Commerce (France), and
Deloitte (US, Asia and Europe). His publications include articles in BNA’s Transfer
Pricing Report (US), Nihon Keizai Sangyou Shinbun (Japan), Kokusai Zeimu (Japan),
International Tax Review (Europe) and Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany).
Dr Hielscher has previous work experience as a university instructor of microeconomics
at both college and graduate-school levels.
As a result of his upbringing in Japan, Germany and the US, Dr Hierscher is trilingual
at the native level in each of the three country languages. He holds a doctorate
in economics from the University of Washington and conducted undergraduate
studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
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