Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Steven Surdell
Ernst & Young LLP
Sears Tower, 233 S Wacker Drive
17th floor
Chicago, IL 60606
US
Tel: (1) 312 879 4123
Fax: (1) 312 879 4028
Email: steven.surdell@ey.com
Website: www.ey.com
Steven Surdell is a partner in the national office of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young
LLP. He concentrates on Federal income tax matters with a special emphasis on the
taxation of complex cross-border financial transactions, international tax planning,
derivative financial instruments, and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions.
Mr Surdell has been a tax adviser to large public corporations on a number of big public
M&A and financing transactions over the past few years.
Mr Surdell is also a frequent speaker before a variety of tax organizations including the
American Bar Association, the Tax Executives Institute, the International Fiscal
Association, Risk Training Courses, the Council for International Tax Education, and
the Structured Finance Institute, among others.
Mr. Surdell was named as one of the world’s leading international tax advisers by
Euromoney Magazine from 1999 through 2006. In 1998, Mr Surdell was named as one of
the top tax advisers in North America by International Tax Review. Mr Surdell is an
honours graduate of St Ambrose College and the University of Notre Dame Law School
where he was an editor of the Law Journal. He has also done work on his MBA at the JL
Kellogg School at Northwestern University and is a certified public accountant. Mr
Surdell is also an adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School
where he teaches a course on advanced international transaction. He was admitted to the
practice by the Illinois Bar (1985). Mr Surdell is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the
Derivatives Report, the Capital Markets editor of the Journal of Financial Products, and a
member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Taxation of Global Transactions.
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