Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Brian E Lebowitz
Alston & Bird LLP
The Atlantic Building
950 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004-1404
US
Tel: (1) 202 756 3394
Fax: (1) 202 654 4934
Email: brian.lebowitz@alston.com
Website: www.alston.com
Brian E Lebowitz is a member of the firm’s international tax group and its federal income
tax group.
His practice over the past 25 years has been devoted primarily to representing
corporations in both international and domestic tax matters. He has extensive experience
in international transfer pricing (including the negotiation of advance pricing
agreements), structuring business transactions of various types, the taxation of debt
instruments and other financial products, tax accounting issues, and tax valuations. In
addition to helping clients conduct their business affairs intelligently in light of their
surrounding tax environment, he assists them in improving that environment by
negotiating advance agreements or obtaining advance rulings that expand the areas
within which they can operate with relative certainty. When controversies with the IRS
or other tax administrators arise, Mr Lebowitz helps clients to resolve them. He also
advises both clients and colleagues on the application of economic analysis in tax and
other legal matters.
Mr Lebowitz has published articles on a variety of subjects. His publications include “In
Search of the Perfect Code” (Legal Times, July 5 1999, at S25) and “Transfer Pricing and
the End of International Taxation” (84 Tax Notes 1523 (1999)). The latter article was
reprinted in a Tax Management Transfer Pricing Special Report (Nov 1 2000). Mr Lebowitz
also co-wrote with two economists “Using Tax Exempt Bonds to Finance Professional
Sports Stadiums” (78 Tax Notes 1663 (1998)).
Mr Lebowitz received his JD in 1980 from Stanford Law School, where he was an article
editor for the Stanford Law Review. He also received a PhD in economics in 1977, as well
as an M Phil in 1975 and an MA in 1974, from Yale University. He earned his BA, summa
cum laude, in 1972 from Amherst College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior
year. After law school, he clerked for the Honourable Thomas Gibbs Gee of the US
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before joining Alston & Bird, he practised at
Covington & Burling in Washington DC, where he was of counsel.
Mr Lebowitz is a member of the tax sections of both the American Bar Association and
the District of Columbia Bar Association and is admitted to practise before the US
Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and the US Tax Court. He is a member of the
National Tax Association, the American Economic Association, the American Law and
Economics Association, the International Fiscal Association, and the Committee on
Taxation of the US Council for International Business.
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