Taxing change: challenges in the new economy

Meyyappan Nagappan

Meyyappan Nagappan is a Leader in the International Tax practice at Nishith Desai Associates. He is a Pemanda Monappa Scholar and has graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters of Law specialising in International Taxation and economics. He was awarded the International Bar Association Taxes Committee Scholarship-2018 and was a speaker at the IBA Annual conference in Rome and Korea. Apart from being the National Reporter for India as part of the IBA's National Reporter programme, he is also a member of the technical committee of the International Fiscal Association(IFA)-India Branch, Bloomberg's Tax Management International Forum Board and part of the World Bank Water Resources Group Taskforce. He has done extensive work advising some of the biggest non-profit foundations, charities and impact investment funds, including structuring advise in relation to India’s first USD 1 Billion education outcomes fund. He has also advised several top technology companies on tax and structuring issues apart from publishing academic articles and book chapters on taxation of digital economy, impact investments and bitcoins. Prior to joining Nishith Desai Associates, he worked in the Chambers of Mr. Mohan Parasan, Solicitor General of India between 2010 – 2014; and was involved in some of the landmark international taxation disputes in India during the time. He has also been a regular speaker in multiple conferences in India and abroad on issues relating to taxation of digital economy, GAAR, MLI, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies and blockchain. He leads the impact investment, social finance, tax policy, taxation of digital economy and GST practices at NDA.

Rachel Fox

Rachel is a Partner in William Fry Tax Advisors. She advises multinational and domestic clients on a wide range of issues with particular focus on international tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions and corporate reorganisations.

She is a key member of William Fry’s Foreign Direct Investment team providing advice to international clients establishing in Ireland including on IP structuring and cross- border tax planning. Rachel is a solicitor and chartered tax advisor.

Marco Ottenwälder

Marco is specialized in National and International Taxation (Double Tax Convention, Foreign Tax Act, Restructuring, Transfer Pricing), Inbound and Outbound Investments (Germany).

Kat Gregor

Kat is a tax partner and co-founder of the Tax Controversy Group. Kat regularly handles disputes with the IRS, DOL and other administrative bodies, and assists clients in managing disputes with non-U.S. tax authorities. Kat represents public companies, private investment funds, institutional investors, private companies and high net worth individuals before the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims and other federal and state courts.

Kat’s practice encompasses a wide range of partnership and international tax issues, with a focus on the asset management and life sciences industries. Kat advises private investment fund managers on structuring and launching funds, and has worked extensively on fund investment and secondary transactions. She regularly assists life sciences companies in evaluating ongoing tax issues arising from international growth, development and implementation of new technology and products and formation and management of joint ventures. She also represents public and private clients in ongoing tax issues, as well as merger, acquisition and restructuring transactions. In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, she is also advising on a variety of legal and regulatory issues associated with the response to the pandemic, including helping clients navigate key tax-related provisions of the CARES Act and other emergency legislation.

Kat previously practiced as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she advised venture capital funds and their portfolio companies on tax compliance, planning, and controversy matters.

Jan Neugebauer

Jan Neugebauer is a Partner in the Tax Law practice.

Jan specialises in both national and international tax structuring for corporate entities and private investment funds, including private equity, buyout, real estate and debt funds. He advises on a broad range of issues including leveraged and management buyouts, secondary transactions, divestments and distributions, real estate transactions, M&A cross-border transactions and finance taxation (including refinancing and distressed debt work). Jan’s expertise encompasses tax questions related to the structuring of capital market transactions, including IPOs, debt issuance, as well as structured finance vehicles.

Jan also advises funds on specific investment and operational issues such as their carried interest and fee structuring.

He advises banks, insurance companies and asset managers on issues arising out of the implementation of and need for ongoing compliance with the automatic exchange of information regulations (e.g. FATCA and CRS).

Until April 2012, Jan Neugebauer led the Luxembourg Tax Desk in the firm's New York office. He primarily assisted North American clients considering investing or structuring through Luxembourg and dealing with any other Luxembourg tax issues that North American clients might have including restructuring, acquisitions and disposal of businesses or assets.

He has been a member of the Frankfurt Bar (Germany) since 2005 and of the Luxembourg Bar since 2006.

He is also a member of the German-American Lawyers’ Association, the tax law working group of the German Lawyers’ Association, the International Fiscal Association, as well as the New York State Bar Association. Additionally, he served on the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Taxation of Business Entities.

Jan Neugebauer is a German qualified lawyer who holds the German first (2001) and second (2005) state exam in law, a diploma in law from the Universität Passau (Dipl. jur.) as well as a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in comparative law from the California Western School of Law, San Diego (USA).

Jessie Coleman

Jessie Coleman heads the IFC Tax Office. Her responsibilities include analyzing and proposing solutions to tax related risks in IFC projects, developing, implementing tax-related policies and procedures and providing thought leadership in the tax space. She joined IFC from Baker & McKenzie in February 2018.

Jessie has over a decade of international tax experience, with significant involvement in transfer pricing consulting, restructuring, economic analysis, valuation, controversy support (audit and litigation defense), transfer pricing documentation, and negotiations with various tax authorities, principally in the context of Advance Price Agreements (APAs).

Jessie has worked with clients in a broad range of industries, with substantial experience in financial services, retail, natural resources, pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, agricultural, electronics, and business services.

Jessie holds a degree from Georgetown University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.

Panayiota Burquier

Panayiota Burquier is an English qualified associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group.

Ms. Burquier qualified as a solicitor in 2009 and has a range of transactional and advisory experience. Her practice focuses on tax aspects of corporate, finance and real estate industry-based transactions and clients. She regularly advises on multi-jurisdictional transactions and liaises closely with colleagues around the world and with other practice groups to provide a seamless service to clients.

Ms. Burquier is a member of the London ESG Taskforce.

Ms. Burquier is an active member of the Gibson Dunn London Diversity, Talent & Inclusion Committee and the Gibson Dunn EMEA Diversity Committee.

Ms. Burquier supports various pro bono initiatives of the firm. Ms. Burquier has assisted numerous Tax Help for Older People clients. Additionally, Ms. Burquier assists with the Gibson Dunn PRIME Programme and the Speakers4Schools programme working with underprivileged local students.

Ms. Burquier was a speaker at the 2018 IBA tax conference and served as a reporter at IBA tax conferences in 2015, 2017 and 2018.