Douglas S. Stransky

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