ABA | OECD BEPS Report – Industry and Practitioners Response

Friday 10 May :

Joint Current International Developments Panel. This panel will review and analyze the most significant recent developments in international tax.

Moderator: Dirk Suringa, Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, DC

Panelists: Danielle E. Rolfes, International Tax Counsel, Office of Tax Policy,
Department of Treasury, Washington, DC; John Merrick, Special Counsel,
Associate Chief Counsel (International), IRS, Washington, DC; Jeffrey S.
Korenblatt, SNR Denton LLP, Washington, DC; Edward Tanenbaum, Alston & Bird
LLP, New York, NY; Karyn Zizza, Ernst & Young LLP, Boston, MA; Michel Collet,
CMS Bureau Lefebvre, Paris, France

Saturday 11 May :

OECD BEPS Report – Industry and Practitioners Response. This second
panel canvasses the views of both multinationals and practitioners from a number of jurisdictions, both those that would consider themselves adversely affected by base erosion and profit shifting techniques and also representatives from those jurisdictions that would be considered beneficiaries of such arrangements. It will examine what approach is being taken in each jurisdiction to address the issues considered in the report.

Moderator: Henry Birnkrant, Alston & Bird, Washington, DC

Panelists: Klaus Sieker, Flick Gocke Schaumburg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
Ailish Finnerty, Arthur Cox, New York, NY; Aseem Chawla, MPC Legal, New Delhi,
India; Maarten de Bruin, Stibbe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Michel Collet,
CMS, Paris, France; Laura Gould, SJ Berwin, London, UK