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Baker McKenzie LLP
660 HANSEN WAY
PALO ALTO, CA 94304
CALIFORNIA
United States

Work Department

Tax

Position

Ethan Kroll is a partner in the Los Angeles office and the Chair of the Firm’s West Coast Tax Practice. He contributes regularly to Bloomberg’s Tax Management International Journal and speaks frequently on international tax issues. Previously, he was a principal at a Big Four accounting firm.

Career

Ethan provides comprehensive, business-focused solutions to tax, legal, and other issues facing multinational enterprises in a wide range of sectors, including life sciences, consumer products, software, digital, and high technology companies. He advises on all aspects of US international income taxation, with an emphasis on multijurisdictional restructurings, expansions, and collaborations; supply chain management and enhancement; intellectual property alignment; loss optimization; and inbound and outbound investment.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • State Bar of California – Section on Taxation

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Tax > International tax

Drawing upon its international platform, Baker McKenzie LLP advises multinational companies on the full spectrum of international tax planning matters including multijurisdictional supply chain, M&A, IP company, post-acquisition integration, and restructuring. The team also supports on tax policy, tax disputes, and transfer pricing issues. The tax team is co-led by Washington DC-based Salim Rahim, Reza Nader, who sits in the New York office, and Julia Skubis Weber, who is based in Chicago. Nader routinely advises clients on tax structuring for global transactions, regularly as part of dispositions, acquisitions, or legal entity rationalization projects. Weber supports multinational and foreign-owned clients on cross-border tax issues, including internal reorganizations, structuring of outbound and inbound investments, foreign tax credits, subpart F, PFICs, withholding and treaty analysis. In Palo Alto, Stewart Lipeles advises US-based multinational corporations in connection with international tax planning and global tax projects. Also in Palo Alto, Sibel Owji‘s practice is focused on corporate international tax, global transfer pricing strategy and documentation, and international tax controversy whilst Robin Chesler focuses on international tax planning for US multinationals. Los Angeles-based Ethan Kroll has significant experience handling US international income taxation matters. In Miami, Robert Moore advises on tax planning for US and foreign-based multinational corporations and partnerships focused on luxury hotel, residences, and resorts, real estate development, and consumer goods and retail in luxury and fashion.