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Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin

1200 SMITH STREET, HOUSTON, TX 77002 4310, USA

What we say about the firm's legal practice in United States

Tax

Within Tax controversy, Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin is a third tier firm,

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin’s George Connelly in Houston, heads the tax controversy group which comprises some 25 attorneys in Texas and Philadelphia. The group provides ‘strategic and tactically savvy advice and relative value’. In Houston, Larry Campagna ranks as the practice heavyweight in white-collar crime and tax fraud, and David Aughtry in Atlanta is an inventive and persuasive litigator who has appeared in the Supreme Court. In Philadelphia, Philip Karter appeared as lead counsel in a five week trial for a Fortune 50 company claiming a $423m capital loss from the sale of stock in a contingent liability lease management subsidiary. Herbert Odell is overseeing a multimillion-dollar tax controversy involving proposed adjustments to a large multinational company, and Kevin Johnson has recently obtained the IRS’ complete concession to the most significant issue in a $500m audit involving cross-border financing, thereby reducing the tax in dispute to less than $30m. Jonathan Prokup, also in Philadelphia, and recommended for transfer pricing disputes, is ‘intelligent, thoughtful, analytical, and articulate’. Clients include Sealy Power, Kimberly-Clark, Plains Petroleum and Valero Energy.


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Offices in Houston, Atlanta, Denver, and West Conshohocken

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