BNA's U.S. International Advisory Board is comprised of esteemed professionals from renown corporations, universities, and government entities. Below is a listing of our current board members.
Leonard L. Silverstein is the co-founder of Silverstein and Mullens, which later became part of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. He concentrates his practice in estate planning, nonprofit organizations, charitable contributions, and representation before the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department.
Mr. Silverstein serves as founder and chief editor of the highly regarded Tax Management publication series. For the past 50 years, Tax Management has produced and maintained more than 500 Portfolios, monthly journals, and periodicals, providing tax professionals and advisors with sophisticated analysis, application, and interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code.
Before he founded his own firm with Richard A. Mullens in 1960, Mr. Silverstein served as an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and on the legal advisory staff of the Treasury Department. His long history of professional and community service includes roles on the Advisory Group of the House Ways and Means Committee in the late 1950s, executive director of the "Filer" Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, member of President-elect Nixon's Task Force on Taxes, member of President Reagan's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and member of the IRS Commissioner's (Lawrence Gibbs) Exempt Organizations Advisory Group.
Gerald H. Sherman concentrates his practice on federal and state tax matters primarily involving small businesses, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and high-net worth individuals in matters that include estate and business planning, life insurance product taxation, and the tax ramifications of sophisticated compensation methodologies.
Mr. Sherman is co-chair of the Tax Management Group of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's Tax Section, and he is a member of the Business Tax Practice Group.
He serves as Deputy Chief Editor and a member of the Advisory Board of the highly regarded BNA/Tax Management publication series.
Richard E. Andersen, Esq., Patton Boggs LLP. B.A., magna cum laude, Columbia College 1978; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1981; partner, Patton Boggs LLP; adjunct professor of law, New York University School of Law; member ABA, NYSBA, IFA, IBA; speaker on international tax issues, including NYU Institute on Federal Taxation and GWU/IRS Annual International Tax Institute; author, articles and treatises on international taxation, including Thomson/RIA/WGL, Wolters Kluwer, and Practising Law Institute publications.
Thomas St. G. Bissell, Esq., B.A., Harvard College (1964); LL.B., Columbia Law School (1967); LL.M. in taxation, New York University (1971); Member, New York Bar; Certified Public Accountant, State of New Jersey; Member, Tax Management International Advisory Board, American Bar Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, International Fiscal Association, Canadian Tax Foundation; former Attorney-Advisor, Office of International Tax Counsel, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, DC; retired tax partner, Coopers & Lybrand LLP; author of numerous articles in professional tax publications.
Peter H. Blessing, Esq., Shearman & Sterling. Princeton University (A.B., 1973); Columbia University (J.D., 1977); New York University (LL.M., 1981); member, New York Bar, and Section of Taxation of American and New York State Bar Associations; contributor: The Tax Lawyer, Tax Management International Journal.
Nathan Boidman, Esq., B. Com., McGill University, 1962; B.C.L., LL.B., McGill University 1980; International Tax Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Montreal, Quebec; Member Bar of Quebec (and CA, Ontario, and FCA, Quebec); Executive Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), 1998–2004; past president & member of council, Canadian IFA Branch; past governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation; Joint Committee of Taxation of the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants; lectures and writes regularly on international tax matters; author, originator/co-editor of "Canada-U.S. Tax Practice," Tax Management International Journal (BNA, Washington); originator/coordinator of "International Mergers & Acquisitions: A Forum For Discussion," Tax Notes International (Tax Analysts–Washington).
Robert T. Cole, Esq., Alston & Bird LLP. Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania (1953); LL.B., Harvard Law School (1956); Academic Postgraduate Diploma in Law, London School of Economics (1959); senior counsel in the Washington, DC, office of Alston & Bird LLP; former member of Cole Corette & Abrutyn; former International Tax Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department; editor and principal author of Practical Guide to U.S. Transfer Pricing.
Bruce N. Davis, Esq., White & Case. B.A., University of Virginia (high honors 1980, Phi Beta Kappa); J.D., Harvard Law School (1983); LL.M. (in taxation), Southern Methodist University (1987); Former Chairman, Subcommittee on §§338, 367 and 1491, Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers, American Bar Association; Principal Special Assistant to the Associate Chief Counsel (International), Internal Revenue Service (1988–1991); member of board of advisors of various international tax publications; frequent speaker and writer on international tax issues.
D. Kevin Dolan, Esq., Merrill Lynch & Co. B.A., University of Virginia; J.D., University of Michigan; Senior Vice President for Tax Policy, Merrill Lynch & Co.; former partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP; former Associate Chief Counsel (Technical and International), Internal Revenue Service; former partner, Arthur Young and Co., Washington, DC; former Attorney-Advisor, Office of International Tax Counsel, U.S. Treasury Department.
Mary L. Fahey, Esq., Tax Executives Institute.
Alan Fischl, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Nicholas S. Freud, Esq., Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP.
Peter A. Glicklich, Esq., Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Mr. Glicklich is a partner resident in the New York office of Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP. His practice is concentrated on the taxation of corporate and international transactions. He advises public and closely-held corporations in connection with mergers and acquisitions, cross-border financings, restructurings, reorganizations, spin-offs, and intercompany pricing. Mr. Glicklich has dealt with companies in diverse fields, including chemicals, consumer products, real estate, biotechnology, software, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and finance. He has also worked with venture funds, investment banks, hedge funds, commodities and securities dealers, and insurance companies. He is a contributing editor of the Tax Management International Journal, the Canadian Tax Journal, the Journal of Taxation of Global Transactions, and the International Tax Review, and he is a former contributing editor of the Journal of Real Estate Taxation. Mr. Glicklich has written numerous articles on cross-border financing, net loss carryovers, bankruptcy restructurings, the use of conduits, transfer pricing, loss importation, and taxation of internet activities. He also speaks frequently on international and corporate tax topics. Mr. Glicklich presently serves as the New York Regional Vice-President and an Executive Committee member of the USA Branch of the International Fiscal Association, and he is a past Secretary of that committee. He is also a member of numerous bar associations. Mr. Glicklich received an honors degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977 and received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1981.
Sanford H. Goldberg, Roberts & Holland LLP.
Bruno Gouthière, Esq., CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre.
Alann W. Granwell, Esq., DLA Piper LLP.
William D. Hawkins, III., The Coca-Cola Company.
John Herson, Esq., Neenah Paper, Inc..
Philip T. Kaplan, Esq., Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
W. Donald Knight, Jr., Esq.
Stephen R. LaSala, Esq., Exxon Mobil Corporation.
Leonard Levin, M. R. Weiser & Company
Howard J. Levine, Esq. Roberts & Holland LLP. B.A., Hunter College (1969); J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo (cum laude, 1972); LL.M. (Taxation), Georgetown University Law Center (1976); attorney and assistant branch chief, Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service (1972–1976); adjunct lecturer in Real Estate Taxation, American University Law School (1980–1982); adjunct professor, The George Washington University Law School and Georgetown University Law Center LL.M. Tax Programs (1982–1993); contributing editor, The Journal of Real Estate Taxation; Tax Management Distinguished Author (2000); member, Advisory Board, Tax Management International Journal; member, Advisory Board, CCH Journal of Taxation of Global Transactions; author, 936 T.M., U.S. Income Tax Treaties—The Limitation on Benefits Article; partner, Roberts & Holland LLP, Washington, DC, and New York, NY; member, American Bar Association (Chairman, Committee on Sales, Exchanges and Basis, and Subcommittee Chairman, Like Kind Exchanges, Tax Section 1990–1994), New York Bar, District of Columbia Bar, International Fiscal Association.
J. Ross Macdonald, IV, Baker & McKenzie.
Philip D. Morrison, Esq., Deloitte Tax LLP. Princeton University (high honors graduate); Harvard Law School (honors graduate); served as the U.S. Treasury's International Tax Counsel (1989–1992), the U.S. government's chief legal advisor on international tax matters (including international tax legislation and regulations), chief negotiator of tax treaties, and director of the Office of International Tax Counsel; represented the U.S. at the OECD; served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee (1981–1983); member of the Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section, the tax committee of the National Foreign Trade Council, the International Fiscal Association, and two Washington-based international tax study groups; has regularly been selected as a leading tax advisor and a leading transfer pricing advisor for the International Tax Review/Legal Media Group’s expert guides; spoken and published widely on various international tax subjects and is a regular contributor to the Tax Management International Journal’s “Leading Practitioner Commentary;” a Principal at Deloitte Tax LLP, in Washington, DC.
Fred F. Murray, Esq., B.A., Rice University; J.D. University of Texas at Austin. Fred Murray is an attorney (District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, and Texas (Board Certified in Tax Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization), and various federal courts) and C.P.A (Maryland and Texas). He is Last Retiring Chair of the Administrative Practice Committee and current Chair of the Competent Authority and Tax Treaties Subcommittee of the US Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties Committee of the ABA Tax Section. His experience includes public law and accounting practice, government service as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division at the Department of Justice and as Special Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service, as well as service as Vice President for Tax Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council and General Counsel and Director of Tax Affairs at the Tax Executives Institute. Mr. Murray serves as an adjunct member of the faculty at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches courses on international taxation and accounting for income taxes, Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, and other issues for corporate tax advisors. He also lectures at the New York University School of Law. Previously, Fred Murray was also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, Rice University Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, and the University of Houston Law Center. Murray is currently Managing Director of Tax Practice Policy and Quality Grant Thornton LLP, U.S. member of Grant Thornton International.
David L. Paul, Esq., American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
David J. Rachofsky, Esq., Dechert LLP.
Michael F. Swanick, CPA, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Saint Joseph’s University (B.S.); Villanova University (M.S.). Mr. Swanick spent three years based in London where he led the firm’s U.S. Corporate Tax Consulting groups and two years in Brussels where he advised many publicly-traded U.S. and EU companies on cross border transactions; expert in the areas of accounting and financial reporting, tax issues, intellectual property management, mergers & acquisitions, and generics. He is the Global and U.S. Tax Leader of the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Philadelphia, PA.
Carol P. Tello, Esq., Sutherland. B.A., College of William and Mary, J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, and M.L.T., Georgetown University Law Center. Lecturer on international tax topics; author of numerous articles on international taxation; member of the Tax Management Foreign Income Advisory Board; member, U.S. Branch Council, International Fiscal Association and Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers and U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties Subcommittees of the ABA Section of Taxation; former attorney-advisor, Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International) and Technical Advisor to the Assistant Commissioner (International).
Leonard B. Terr, Esq., Baker & McKenzie LLP.
James J. Tobin, Esq., Ernst & Young LLP.
John P. Warner, Esq., Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. B.A., George Washington University (1971); J.D., University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law (1977); member, American Bar Association Section on Taxation; admitted to practice, United States Tax Court, United States Court of Federal Claims, United States Supreme Court.
Roger D. Wheeler, Esq.