Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Jerome B Libin
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
US
Tel: (1) 202 383 0145
Fax: (1) 202 637 3593
Email: jerome.libin@sablaw.com
Website: www.sablaw.com
Jerry Libin is the firm-wide chair of the 80-lawyer tax group at Sutherland Asbill &
Brennan LLP. He handles matters involving virtually every aspect of domestic and
international corporate taxation for a broad range of US and foreign clients. His principal
areas of concentration are tax controversy, tax planning (including transfer pricing),
corporate acquisitions, dispositions and restructurings, and financial transactions
involving domestic and/or international tax considerations. Mr Libin has successfully
litigated a number of important federal tax cases. He also handles constitutional
challenges to state tax statutes.
Mr Libin has extensive experience in dealing with the Treasury Department in matters
such as the revision of proposed regulations and the negotiation of tax treaty provisions.
He has handled legislative matters involving presentations to the Congressional taxwriting
committees and the Joint Committee on Taxation. As a consultant to the
American Law Institute International Tax Study Project, Mr Libin participated in the
development of a number of international tax proposals that became part of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986. He has also served as an informal adviser to the staff of the Senate
Finance Committee.
From 2001 to 2005, Mr Libin was president of the 10,000-member International Fiscal
Association (IFA), the largest professional organization in the world devoted exclusively
to the study of international tax matters. He is currently a member of the executive
committee of the US branch of IFA. Mr Libin has also served as a member of the council
of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and as chair of its Special Committee
on Standing to Sue, Committee on Integration, Special Projects Committee and
Globalization Task Force. A past chair of the Taxation Division of the District of
Columbia Bar; he is also a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a master
of the bench of the J Edgar Murdock American Inn of Court, the only inn of court
dealing with federal tax matters. He has been a professorial lecturer on advanced
corporate taxation at the George Washington University National Law Center. He is a
frequent speaker at tax programmes and a contributor to tax periodicals.
Mr Libin is listed in the Best Lawyers in America, the Guide to the World’s Leading Tax
Advisers, Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers, Chambers Global – World’s
Leading Lawyers, the International Tax Review World Tax Guide, and various other
publications listing prominent tax practitioners.
Mr Libin graduated from University of Michigan Law School, where he was editorin-chief
of the Law Review. Before joining the firm in 1961, he served as a law clerk to
Associate Justice Charles E Whittaker of the United States Supreme Court.
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