Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Marc M Levey
Baker & McKenzie LLP
805 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
US
Tel: (1) 212 891 3944
Fax: (1) 212 310 1644
Email: marc.m.levey@bakernet.com
Website: www.bakernet.com
Marc Levey is a partner in the New York office of Baker & McKenzie. He has over 25
years of experience in international taxation and is a nationally recognized expert in his
field, particularly in structuring and defending transfer-pricing strategies. He has
frequently been acknowledged by Legal Media Group as one of the world’s leading tax
advisors, and was included in the Best of the Best, global tax experts. Mr Levey has also been
recognized in the Best Lawyers in America and in New York Magazine as among “The New
York Area’s Best Lawyers.”
His practice focuses on transfer pricing and cross-border transactions and mergers and
acquisitions; tax controversies and litigation; and general corporate, international and
partnership taxation, and multinational restructurings. Mr Levey previously served as a
tax attorney with the International Tax Ruling Group of the National Office of the IRS
from 1975 to 1977. He acted as senior trial attorney with the Tax Division of the US
Department of Justice from 1977 to 1981, was the special attorney to the Attorney-
General of the US Department of Justice in 1982, and was formerly a partner in a bigfive
firm, where he headed the transfer-pricing practice for the greater metropolitan New
York area and was member of the firm’s international task force. In addition, he was a tax
partner at a prominent New York-based law firm.
Mr Levey represents a wide range of clients in proceedings before the IRS and federal
courts and has substantial experience in handling tax controversies. He has been, and is,
tax counsel on numerous high-profile tax court cases, including Club Med Sales Inc v
Commissioner; Astra USA Inc v Commissioner; Saint Gobain Corporation et al v Commissioner;
Frette SA v Commissioner; Andres Courrage Inc v Commissioner; Framatome Connectors USA
v Commissioner; and El Paso Maquila Sales Inc v Commissioner. He has also successfully
negotiated conclusions to numerous IRS tax audits, appeals controversies, fast-track
appeals, competent authority matters and advance-pricing agreements.
He has been a featured speaker at numerous international tax seminars throughout the
world, such as Tax Executive Institute, Practicing Law Institute, International Fiscal
Association, International Tax Review, Canadian Tax Foundation, College Colegio de
Contadores de Pubicio Mexico, Counsel for Tax Education, American Bar Association,
and NYU Tax Institute. He is also the editor and author of the tax treatise US Taxation of
Foreign Controlled Business, co-author of International Transfer Pricing OECD Guidelines,
Warren Gorman Lamont treatises, the co-author of Transfer Pricing: Rules, Compliance and
Controversy, CCH Incorporated, and the co-author of “Transfer Pricing: Alternate
Practical Strategies” 890 Tax Management Foreign Income Portfolios (2001). Mr Levey has
also authored over 100 publications over the last 10 years in leading global tax publications.
Mr Levey is founding chairman of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section, Transfer
Pricing Committee, and prior vice chairman of the Affiliated and Related Tax Party
Committee, director of International Tax Institute Inc, and member of the advisory board
of numerous leading tax journals such as Journal of International Taxation, International Tax
Journal and BNA Foreign Tax Portfolio.
Mr Levey is a graduate of Wilkes University (BS economics and accounting, 1969),
University of Cincinnati College of Law (JD 1972) and the University of Miami Law
School (LLM taxation, with honours, 1973). He is a member of the New York, California,
District of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Illinois Bar Associations and the American Bar
Association.
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