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Douglas S. Stransky
Partner
Douglas S. Stransky is a partner in the Tax Department of our Boston office. Mr. Stransky concentrates his practice on international tax planning for multinational clients with a particular emphasis on U.S.-based clients investing in foreign jurisdictions. He has over eleven years of international tax experience. Prior to joining Sullivan & Worcester, Mr. Stransky was the Director of International Tax Services and a member of the National Outbound Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Representative Client Work
- Structuring tax efficient international mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations for a broad range of publicly traded and privately held multinational companies
- Designing cross border financing strategies, including hybrid debt structures, for numerous domestic and foreign acquisitions and restructurings
- Advising S&P 100 multinational companies to mid-sized privately held businesses in capital loss planning, transfer pricing, foreign tax credit utilization, foreign treasury and cash flow management, and foreign holding company structures
- Migrating of intellectual property to tax-favored jurisdictions
- Recapitalizing foreign operations to reduce foreign tax burdens and enhance foreign earnings repatriation efficiency
- Representing a developer of telephone-based applications for the communications management, software-based, and voice-driven electronic assistant product market, with respect to various income and indirect tax issues related to its overseas expansion
- Assisting one of the world’s largest mobile operators and several other telecommunications providers with various tax issues related to expansion into the United States and into numerous foreign markets
- Providing international tax and structuring advice to one of the world’s largest asset management firms in connection with its $27 billion proposal for the acquisition of a global media and entertainment company
Bar & Court Admissions
- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Tax Court
Publications
- Doing Business Overseas Can be Taxing Experience, Mass. High Tech (November 2, 2007)
- "Going International Online-General Business Issues and Tax Implications," WC & P (September 2000)
- "U.S. Companies Underestimate Euro's Impact," Cincinnati Business Courier, Vol. 15, No. 51 (April 1999)
Teaching & Speaking Engagements
- Frequent speaker on international tax issues, including conferences for the Council for International Tax Education (CITE) and Alliance for Tax, Legal and Accounting Seminars (ATLAS)
Professional & Civic Activities
- International Fiscal Association
- Section of Taxation and Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers (FAUST), American Bar Association
- Taxation Section, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Co-Chair, International Tax Committee, Boston Bar Association
- Essex County Bar Association
- Board of Trustees, North Shore Music Theatre
- Board of Directors, Boston Cares
- Pro Bono Panel, Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts
Education
- LL.M., Taxation, University of Miami School of Law, 1997
- J.D., cum laude, University of Miami School of Law, 1996
- B.A., cum laude, Harvard University, 1993
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