Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Keith Reams
Deloitte
50 Fremont Street, Suite 3100
San Francisco, CA 94105-2230
US
Tel: (1) 415 783 6088
Fax: (1) 415 783 8574
Email: kreams@deloitte.com
Website: www.deloitte.com
Keith Reams is the lead economist for the western region and a client services principal
in the international economic consulting practice of Deloitte’s global transfer-pricing
group. Mr Reams is also a member of Deloitte’s global executive technology, media and
telecommunications industry tax management team as the global leader for transfer
pricing. In this capacity, he works extensively with large multinational companies in a
wide variety of industries on major business enterprise restructurings and global tax
optimization projects.
Mr Reams has over two decades of extensive experience in the area of economic
consulting in connection with mergers and acquisitions, highly complex international tax
planning, supply chain realignment, as well as controversy management and dispute
resolution. He has advised many large multinational companies in a variety of industries,
including many companies engaged in the research and development, manufacture and
marketing of innovative and cutting-edge high technology and communication products
and services. His expert reports have been translated into several foreign languages and
used many times for tax and other purposes all around the world.
Mr Reams has testified as a qualified expert in numerous valuation and transfer-pricing
disputes, including testifying before the US Tax Court in the cases of DHL Corp v
Commissioner and Nestle Holdings Inc v Commissioner. He is one of only three economists
in the US approved by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to
provide transfer-pricing expertise and testimony in cases involving cross-border transactions
within commonly controlled affiliated groups. He has also helped many clients
to successfully resolve valuation and transfer-pricing disputes before they reach trial.
Mr Reams has authored numerous articles, lectured on international tax and valuation
planning issues, and commented and testified on emerging tax regulatory issues. He
holds a BS in chemical engineering from Stanford University, an MA in economics
from California State University, Sacramento, and has completed course requirements
for a PhD in international finance at New York University.
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