Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Leonard B Terr
Baker & McKenzie LLP
815 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006-4078
US
Tel: (1) 202 452 7087
Fax: (1) 202 835 1889
Email: leonard.b.terr@bakernet.com
Website: www.bakernet.com
Leonard B Terr is a partner in the Washington DC office of Baker & McKenzie. His
practice focuses on domestic and international taxation of multinational corporations,
with emphasis on international tax planning, transfer pricing, and tax controversies. Mr
Terr has over 25 years of experience representing US-based and foreign-based
multinationals, foreign governments, international organizations and trade associations
in all phases of international tax practice.
Representative client matters include planning, obtaining rulings on, and
implementing, multi-country restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures
and joint ventures, global supply chain and business model reorganizations, postmerger
integration and other international transactions. Typically his clients are
companies in the automobile, aerospace, consumer products, electronics, insurance,
natural resources, pharmaceutical, services, telecommunications and other industries.
Mr Terr’s practice also includes securing bilateral and multilateral advance pricing
agreements; interacting with tax treaty negotiators to obtain favorable provisions in
pending new treaties and protocols on behalf of companies and industry groups;
testifying on proposed international tax regulations; achieving favorable settlements of
tax cases involving a wide variety of issues; and obtaining favorable competent
authority and other agreements in tax controversies involving most major European,
Asia-Pacific, Latin and North American jurisdictions.
Mr Terr has served as a consultant on the American Law Institute project on tax
treaties, and as a current or former editorial board member on Tax Notes International,
Tax Management International Journal, The Journal of Corporate Taxation, and Hartford
Institute on Insurance Taxation. Mr Terr currently serves on Baker & McKenzie’s North
American tax practice group management committee. He is a member of the
International Fiscal Association, sits on the IFA-USA council, and was US National
Reporter. He sits on the American Bar Association tax section’s Foreign Activities of
US Taxpayers Committee, has served as chairman of the Section 367 sub-committee
and currently chairs the Source sub-committee. Mr Terr serves on the tax section’s task
force on Global Tax Policy. He has chaired the Washington International Tax Study
Group since 1990.
Mr Terr served as international tax counsel of the US Treasury Department from 1987
to 1989. He headed the US delegation in the negotiation of the current US-Germany
tax treaty, in addition to over a dozen other US tax treaties and protocols. He directed
the treasury’s work on international tax legislation and regulations, the transfer pricing
White Paper and other US and OECD international tax policy initiatives. He
previously served as law clerk to Chief Judge Wilson Cowen of the US Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is currently adjunct professor of international tax
law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Mr Terr holds an AB from LaSalle College, an AM and PhD from Brown University
and a JD from Cornell University.
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