International Tax Conference (ITC)

Lawrence Chastang

Lawrence J. Chastang, CPA, TEP specializes in international taxation, assisting clients ranging from small entrepreneurs to major multi-national subsidiaries with their individual and corporate work. He advises on a wide range of domestic and international tax issues with clients that include multinational corporations, partnerships, and entrepreneurs, as well as foreign persons investing in the United States.

Having served international clients for more than 35 years, he has developed strong business ties in the international community. He is acknowledged as one of Florida's leading experts in international business and taxation and is fluent in Spanish and French.

Chastang & Partners is a boutique international practice with multiple offices in Central and West Florida.The firm is focused on serving global high net worth families, entrepreneurs, multi-national corporations and private equity firms.

Abrahm Smith

Abrahm Smith is an attorney in Miami, Florida who has practiced tax law for almost 20 years. He started as an attorney at White & Case and was a partner at Baker McKenzie before starting his own firm. He specializes in private client work for high net worth cross border families. He has a strong network of clients, service providers and professionals throughout the world.

William Sharp Sr

William Sharp is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Atlanta, Tampa and San Francisco offices (residing in Atlanta and San Francisco) with more than 35 years of experience representing clients in a wide variety of international tax planning and tax controversy cases. Mr. Sharp provides international and domestic tax advice to numerous U.S.-based and foreign-based clients, including publicly traded and closely held entities. His tax practice also focuses on globally oriented high-net-worth clients, including many U.S. and foreign-based family offices. Mr. Sharp has served as lead counsel with respect to U.S. Tax Court proceedings, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) appeals and examination cases. He also has served as lead counsel or co-counsel to more than 1,500 IRS voluntary disclosure cases.

Mr. Sharp advises financial institutions and their clients on international tax enforcement and compliance initiatives. In addition, Mr. Sharp represents several Swiss-based banking institutions in connection with the U.S. Department of Justice Swiss Bank Program, including the largest bank participating in the program and one of the major cantonal banks (both cases were resolved under Category 3 of the program). Mr. Sharp also has extensive experience in handling matters related to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and other cross-border compliance and disclosure initiatives.

Mr. Sharp has served as an adjunct professor at the Stetson University College of Law and a lecturer at the University of South Florida Executive MBA program. He is a frequent speaker on international tax and business law matters. In addition, Mr. Sharp has been featured as well as quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, USA Today and other media on international tax issues.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Sharp was founding and managing partner of a boutique international tax law firm with offices in Tampa, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Zurich, Switzerland.

Seth Entin

Seth J. Entin is a Tax shareholder in Greenberg Traurig's Miami office. He focuses his practice on the international taxation of high-net-worth individuals and families, international corporate taxation, Internal Revenue Service international tax audits, and Internal Revenue Service voluntary disclosures.

With more than 23 years of experience, Seth has earned numerous accolades. In 2016, he was recognized as "Miami Lawyer of the Year" in Tax Law by The Best Lawyers in America guide. He has also been recognized by Chambers USA— America's Leading Business Lawyers guide since 2007. Seth is currently ranked Band 1 in Tax for Florida and has been noted by Chambers for his "practical approach" and "strong knowledge base" that is always "focused on achieving the best possible results."

Seth has written for Tax Notes, Tax Notes International, Bloomberg Tax & Accounting and Law 360, and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. In addition, he is an adjunct professor of international taxation at the University of Miami School of Law and has served as Director of International Tax Law for The Florida Bar Tax Section.

A fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, Seth regularly speaks at national and international tax conferences, including before the American Bar Association (ABA), International Bar Association (IBA), International Fiscal Association (IFA), Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) and The Florida Bar. He also passed the Certified Public Accountant exam.

Michael Bruno

Michael J. Bruno is a Partner with McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP .  He focuses his practice on domestic and international tax planning for multinational companies, funds, and entrepreneurial families. Michael has written numberous articles on international tax planning and frequently submits comments on statutory & regulatory promulgations. As a strong proponent for pro bono legal services, Michael founded the "Transactional Equal Justice Program" with Legal Services of Greater Miami, which offers free legal advice to non-profits and low-to-moderate income small business owners, helping them to launch a business. He graduated form the University of Central Florida, BSBA, Finance and Accounting, (2009), cum laude from the University of Florida Levin College of Law (2012), and received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University (2013).

Steven Hadjilogiou

Steven Hadjilogiou focuses his practice on international inbound and outbound international tax planning for multinational companies and high net worth individuals. Steven has represented various Fortune 500 companies and major privately held businesses in their tax planning and supply chain projects, and also has substantial experience advising on transfer pricing, tax-related intellectual property matters, Subpart F and foreign investment in US real property. Steven also advises clients on pre-immigration planning and cross-border wealth succession. Steven has also worked on the taxation of partnerships and corporations, and international corporate reorganizations.

Steven is an adjunct professor of International Inbound Taxation at the University of Miami Graduate Tax Program. He is the co-chair of the annual Florida Bar/FICPA International Tax Conference. Steven has written numerous articles and presented on topics related to tax. He was a primary drafter of the amicus curiae brief submitted to the US Supreme Court on behalf of the Florida Bar Tax Section in Knight v. Commissioner in 2008.

Alfredo Tamayo

Shareholder
Packman, Neuwahl & Rosenberg, P.A.

Alfredo R. Tamayo is a shareholder with Packman, Neuwahl & Rosenberg, a Miami, Florida based law firm who practices in the areas of international taxation (both inbound and outbound) and general taxation, including business planning and estate planning. Alfredo particularly specializes in and devotes a large part of his practice to the Federal income taxation of international transactions involving foreign investors with U.S. businesses and investments and U.S. investors with foreign businesses and foreign investments. Alfredo received his B.S. from Villanova University, his J.D. from the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University, and his LL.M in estate planning from the Villanova University School of Law. Prior to being admitted to the Florida Bar, Alfredo was a Florida certified public accountant (CPA) with 10 years of experience in public accounting primarily dealing with international tax planning and compliance issues.

Leslie Share

Leslie A. Share is a shareholder in Packman, Neuwahl & Rosenberg, P.A., specializing in the areas of domestic and international tax, estate and wealth preservation planning. Mr. Share has advised clients in numerous and diverse areas such as Broadway theatrical productions, domestic and foreign real estate like-kind exchanges, Internet sales, services and licensing tax planning, advanced domestic and foreign wealth preservation techniques, U.S. tax treaties, Internal Revenue Service examinations and voluntary compliance programs and preferred structures for inbound and outbound business and investment planning. Mr. Share has written for publications such as Checkpoint Catalyst, Florida Bar Journal, Asset Protection Journal, Estate Planning, Entertainment Law & Finance, the University of Florida Law Review, and an American Bar Association book entitled Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate—A Comprehensive Guide, along with several times being recognized as an FICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader. He has served as an Adjunct Professor and Guest Lecturer at the University of Miami Law School Graduate Program in Taxation. Les is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and listed in Best Lawyers in America and Florida Super Lawyers in the field of tax law. Mr. Share received his B.A. from Northwestern University, his J.D., with honors, from the University of Florida, and his Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University.

Robert Moore

Robert H. Moore's practice focuses on international tax planning for US multinational companies, both publicly traded, and private, financing structures, post-acquisition restructuring, reorganizations, wealth management, and tax controversy and litigation. Also advises foreign ultra-high net worth clients investing structuring US real estate investments. Serves as lead partner for the Miami Office's Diversity & Inclusion Committee, serves on the North America Anti-Racism Task Force. Previously served as a member of the Baker & McKenzie North America Tax Practice Group's Tax Planning and Transactions Steering Committee and Best Practices Committee. Previously served as the Managing Partner of the Miami office from 2017-2019.

Shawn Wolf

Sought out for his reputation as a cultivator of strong, long-term client relationships, Shawn counsels foreign and domestic high net worth individuals, families and closely-held companies wherever they need international and domestic tax, estate planning, and pre-immigration and expatriation planning and strategies. Many of his clients are multi-generational in nature, spanning decades of private wealth planning needs. His Florida Bar Board Certification in Tax Law represents one of the most distinguished markers of expertise among practitioners in the private wealth planning field. 

Among the areas of his practice for which he is most approached are matters involving the application of U.S. Federal income tax rules to U.S. taxpayers conducting business abroad or moving abroad, foreign nationals investing in or moving to the United States, and the utilization of foreign and domestic trusts in strategies related to such matters. For 25 years, Shawn has also assisted hundreds of clients in coming into compliance with U.S. tax filing requirements, particularly international clients with complex situations involving multiple jurisdictions, in addition to counseling them on the minimization of applicable penalties. Finally, Shawn also assists clients in forming and operating domestic and offshore businesses, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. 

An active member of the Florida Bar Tax Section, he currently serves as its Director-at-Large and previously served as Co-Director of the Long Range Planning Division, Co-Director of the Federal Tax Division, Section Administration Division, and Chair of the Outbound Tax Committee. His many years of leadership in the Tax Section recently earned him nomination as its Chair for 2023-2024.

Philip Hodgen

Philip D. W. Hodgen is the principal attorney for Hodgen Law Group, which specializes in the international tax arena. He earned his undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna College and his law degree from the School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then went on to earn a Master of Laws degree with a specialty in taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law. Admitted to the California bar in 1982, Mr. Hodgen spent nine years in law firms and with a large U.S. bank before starting his own firm in 1991. For six years of his youth, he lived in Rhodesia, South Africa and New Zealand. Mr. Hodgen is a past chair of the International Tax Committee of the State Bar of California’s Tax Section and was a member of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California’s Tax Section for 2004-2007. Mr. Hodgen frequently speaks on a variety of international tax, trust and estate topics to attorneys, accountants, real estate professionals and other groups.

Caroline Ciraolo

Caroline D. Ciraolo, former Acting Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division, is a partner with Kostelanetz & Fink and a founder of its Washington, D.C. office. Her practice focuses on complex and sophisticated civil tax controversies, including representation in sensitive audits, administrative appeals, and litigation in federal and state courts and administrative tax tribunals, providing related tax advice, conducting internal investigations, consideration of domestic and foreign compliance options including voluntary disclosures, and representing individuals and institutions in criminal tax investigations and prosecutions.

Jeffrey Neiman

Jeffrey Neiman is an experienced trial lawyer who regularly defends individuals and corporations in white collar criminal litigation, matters involving tax controversies, government regulatory enforcement matters, internal investigations, compliance counseling, and complex civil litigation. Jeff has tried more than a dozen white collar matters in federal court. Having worked at the forefront of the United States government's offshore tax enforcement efforts, Jeff has vast experience assisting clients who nd themselves with unreported or undeclared bank accounts outside of the United States. Jeff advises clients regarding the Internal Revenue Service's Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program as well as clients who face civil and Reports ("FBARS").

Prior to being a Founding Member of Marcus Neiman & Rashbaum LLP, Jeff had his own law firm that focused on white collar and tax controversy matters. An alum of the United States Department of Justice Attorney General's Honors Program, Jeff began his career working for the Department of Justice Tax Division and then the Criminal Division, Fraud Section in Washington, D.C. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, where he received national recognition for handling complex, high pro le matters including the ground-breaking and historic prosecution of Switzerland's largest bank, UBS AG, for aiding American citizens to commit tax fraud. For his efforts on the UBS investigation, Jeff was awarded the Attorney General's John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement and the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner's Award, the highest recognition a prosecutor can receive.

Raised in South Florida, Jeff graduated with honors from the University of Florida and also graduated from law school at the University of Florida where he was a member of Order of the Coif. Jeff currently serves as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches Criminal Procedure and Tax Fraud in their graduate accounting executive program. Jeff also is a frequent lecturer, panelist, and contributor at national conferences on topics including offshore tax evasion, tax fraud, Ponzi schemes and trial practice.

Lawrence Chastang

Lawrence J. Chastang, CPA, TEP specializes in international taxation, assisting clients ranging from small entrepreneurs to major multi-national subsidiaries with their individual and corporate work. He advises on a wide range of domestic and international tax issues with clients that include multinational corporations, partnerships, and entrepreneurs, as well as foreign persons investing in the United States.

Having served international clients for more than 35 years, he has developed strong business ties in the international community. He is acknowledged as one of Florida's leading experts in international business and taxation and is fluent in Spanish and French.

Chastang & Partners is a boutique international practice with multiple offices in Central and West Florida.The firm is focused on serving global high net worth families, entrepreneurs, multi-national corporations and private equity firms.

Daniel Price

Dan's legal practice focuses on federal tax and Title 31 matters including civil and criminal defense of IRS audits and investigations. Dan also assists taxpayers in navigating the process of coming into compliance, especially international taxpayers who have for one reason or another failed to comply fully with U.S. tax and Title 31 laws. Dan's deep expertise concerning the IRS' voluntary disclosure practice, the Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures, and international penalty regimes allows him craft strategies to mitigate civil penalties and criminal exposure.

For over 19 years Dan served as an attorney for the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service. Dan's prior government service included extensive work in the arena of international enforcement and included assisting the IRS in completely revising the Voluntary Disclosure Practice. Dan also worked with the various Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Programs, the Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures, foreign bank account reporting, Bank Secrecy Act investigations, various LB&I compliance campaigns, expatriation issues, international collection of taxes, and much more.

Dan received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law. While attending law school, he passed the Uniform CPA exam (not licensed as a CPA) and was a staff member on two law journals.  

Hal Webb

Hal J. Webb is a trusted advisor and counselor to high-net-worth international families. He is Head of Bilzin Sumberg's International Private Client Services and Partner in the Firm's Tax & Estate Planning Group. Hal's practice focuses on advising high-net-worth private clients in all aspects of international tax and estate planning. He also advises family offices and trust companies. Hal frequently deals with foreign trusts with U.S. beneficiaries, pre-immigration planning for foreigners moving to the U.S., large gifts and inheritances being received by U.S. persons from foreign persons or foreign estates, tax compliance and voluntary disclosures, structuring a foreign person's investment into the U.S. (particularly the acquisition of business interests and residential and commercial real estate), and expatriation planning. He also handles matters involving tax planning for foreign companies doing business in the U.S. Hal's technical expertise helps him tailor a solution which best fits the needs of his clients. Hal is discreet and highly professional. 
Hal is a frequent author and lecturer on various topics of international tax and estate planning. Additionally, he is Chair of the International Tax In-Bound Committee of The Florida Bar Tax Section, and the immediate Past Chair of the Miami Branch of STEP. Hal has consistently been recognized by legal publications and by his peers as being a top tax and estate planning lawyer, including being named in Florida Super Lawyers, Best of the Best USA, Citywealth Leaders List, Legal Week International Trusts & Private Client Elite, and Guide to the World's Leading Trusts & Estates Practitioners.

Stewart Kasner

Stewart Kasner is a partner in the Miami office of Baker & McKenzie LLP. His practice is focused primarily in the areas of international taxation, international trusts and international estates. Mr. Kasner has advised foreign clients as to the U.S. tax issues and consequences relating to their international estates, offshore trusts, U.S. sitused assets including U.S. real property interests, closely held companies both engaged and not engaged in U.S. trades or businesses, gifts to U.S. family members, U.S. reporting requirements, portfolio debt instruments, withholding taxes, international reorganizations, liquidations, and reporting requirements of qualified and nonqualified intermediaries. In addition, Mr. Kasner has advised domestic clients as to the U.S. tax issues and consequences relating to their offshore corporate and trust activities, information reporting compliance, including voluntary disclosures, investments in offshore hedge funds, offshore life insurance and annuity products, treaty benefits, taxation of foreign trusts, their grantors and beneficiaries, entity classification elections, foreign tax credits and assignments of intellectual property rights. Mr. Kasner is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Florida Bar. He is listed in the publication The Best Lawyers in America for the tax law specialty. Mr. Kasner is recognized as a leading individual in the tax law field by Chambers & Partners in the publication America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and recognized by Euromoney in its Guide to the World’s Leading Trusts & Estates Practitioners. Mr. Kasner earned an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law Graduate Tax Program in 1998 and a J.D. cum laude from Saint Thomas University School of Law in 1997. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce in finance and international business from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1991.

Mishkin Santa

Mishkin is a Principal of The Wolf Group and oversees the firm's international tax services in the areas of Offshore Voluntary Disclosure, US Exit Tax, foreign grantor and non-grantor trusts, nonresident alien taxation, international organization employee taxation, pre-immigration tax planning, and cryptocurrency.

He assists individuals and businesses with highly specialized and complex tax issues related to offshore corporations, family businesses, trusts, and retirement plans. As a former Attorney with the IRS Chief Counsel, Mishkin is well-positioned to guide clients on a range of reporting and disclosure issues. In addition, he speaks regularly at professional events sponsored by attorney and CPA groups in the US and abroad.

Before joining The Wolf Group, Mishkin was a Partner of the International Tax Division at the Krueger CPA Group. He split his time between the main office in Austin, Texas and the sister office in Zurich, Switzerland.

Outside of work, Mishkin's favorite activity is to spend time with his wife and two children. He also enjoys all things related to history, specifically Greek Mythology and the Argead Dynasty (Alexander the Great), Old Testament Bible, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, the British Empire, and the Republic of the United States. He is also a big movie buff and fan of 80s and 90s pop culture.