Stefanie E. Kavanagh

• Represented several multinational companies on unilateral and bilateral advance pricing agreements involving the IRS and other tax authorities.
• Secured favorable competent authority agreements to eliminate double taxation in controversies involving the U.S., Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, and the UK.
• Represented issuers and underwriters in billions of dollars of offerings of REIT securities.
• Represented an industry-leading mortgage REIT on its merger with a specialty finance REIT that focuses primarily on investments in residential mortgage-backed securities.
• Counsel to the worldwide leader in automotive safety during an internal reorganization and spinoff of its electronics business into a new, separate public company.

Stefanie Kavanagh is a senior associate in the Federal & International Tax Group and focuses her practice on transfer pricing, tax planning and structuring for domestic and international business entities. She is also a member of the firm’s REITS and Real Estate Funds tax team. She assists multinational corporate clients to secure advance pricing agreements and competent authority relief from the IRS and foreign tax authorities. She also advises REITs (both privately owned and publicly traded) on numerous tax issues and assists with taxable and nontaxable acquisitions and dispositions, and public offerings of equity and debt securities. Stefanie was identified as “One to Watch” by The Best Lawyers in America^© in Tax Law.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Stefanie was an intern with the financial institutions and products division of the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS while completing her LL.M. in taxation at the Georgetown University Law Center. She received her J.D. from the Vanderbilt University Law School and her B.A. in economics and political science, summa cum laude, from Westminster College.

律師資格

• 哥倫比亞特區
• 馬里蘭州

學歷

• Georgetown University (LL.M. Taxation, 2015)
• Vanderbilt University (法學博士, 2014)
• Westminster College (學士學位, 2011)

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