Carol Tello is a member of Sutherland’s Tax Practice Group and focuses primarily on international tax matters. Her practice includes a broad range of cross-border tax planning and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) controversy matters for both business entities and individuals. Much of her work has been for insurance companies in the cross-border context. She has particular experience in cross-border restructuring transactions, inbound corporate transactions, withholding matters, and treaty interpretation issues, as well as cross-border taxation of corporate executives and the U.S. taxation of non-U.S. citizens. She also advises clients on tax issues involving intellectual property transactions.

Her prior experience includes service in the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International) and as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Commissioner (International). While at the IRS, she participated in a number of income tax treaty negotiations, was the IRS National Office adviser in several Tax Court cases, and worked on various regulations and other guidance, including significant participation in developing regulations concerning the taxation of software transactions.

Alan Winston Granwell is an international tax of counsel resident in DLA Piper's Washington, DC office. Mr. Granwell’s practice encompasses representing multinational corporations on cross-border planning, to include acquisitions, dispositions and business restructurings, IP migrations, services arrangements, repatriation planning, international insurance, international transportation, cross-border leasing, transfer pricing and the use of bilateral tax treaties. He also advises high-net-worth individuals on cross-border tax planning and structuring.

Recently, Mr. Granwell has become active in advising investors from emerging countries engaged in cross-border transactions involving the United States and Europe and in advising financial institutions and their clients on international tax enforcement initiatives, with special emphasis on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

Jesse Eggert is an Associate International Tax Counsel in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy. While at the Treasury Department, he has had responsibility for a variety of matters relating to U.S. international taxation, with a focus on the taxation of inbound investment, the taxation of financial institutions and products, and on the implementation of FATCA both through administrative guidance and through intergovernmental agreements. In addition, Jesse has had substantial involvement in negotiating tax treaties, and has represented the United States before the OECD at Working Party No. 1 on Tax Conventions and Related Questions and at a subsidiary working group on permanent establishment issues.

Before working for the Treasury Department, Jesse was an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, where he worked on tax issues facing foreign and domestic insurance companies, and at Winston & Strawn, where his practice focused primarily on matters concerning U.S. taxation of foreign financial institutions. Jesse received an A.B., with distinction in all subjects, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell University. He is a member of the adjunct faculty in the LL.M. program at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching an annual course on tax treaties.

Lorraine White, works for the Bank of New York Mellon as head of EMEA custody tax and US tax services where she provides custody tax technical support to the Banks Asset Servicing groups and clients in the EMEA region.

Lorraine has had an extensive career in Asset Servicing, primarily focusing on custody tax matters, Lorraine has been heavily involved with a number of trade associations and their work on FATCA, most notably that of the UKs British Bankers Association where she also currently chairs its International Custodian Tax Liaison Group.

Lorraine is an active participant in global initiatives, focusing on simplification and harmonisation of tax relief and tax compliance procedures for cross border portfolio investors, notably the work of the EU Commission and the OECDs TRACE Group.

Peter Deblon, Counselor, Finance (Tax) of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, DC.