David R. Tillinghast

Is a partner in the New Yorker office of Baker & McKenzie. He is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School. His practice includes the tax aspects of domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, investment funds, joint ventures and leasing, project and other types of financings, as well as transfer pricing and related issues. Mr. Tillinghast served as a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association from 1983 to 2000 and as its Chairman from 1995 to 2000. He has also served as Reporter for the American Law Institute project on the international aspects of U.S. income taxation, as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers of the American Bar Association, and as Chairman of the Committee on Taxation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has published more than 50 articles in various tax journals and recently co-authored (with Professor William W. Park) a book entitled: Income Tax Treaty Arbitration. In 1996, the New York University School of Law Masters Program in International Taxation established in his honor the David R. Tillinghast Lectures on International Taxation.

 

 

Gerald Toifl

Born in Wels in 1969 and completed his studies in law at the University of Vienna in 1994. In that year he also joined the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Mr. Toifl joined the IBFD International Tax Academy in 1997, moving on to Loyens & Volkmaars (Amsterdam) in 1999 and to Wolf Theiss (Vienna) in 2000. Since 2002 he has been tax adviser and partner with Leitner + Leitner (Vienna/Salzburg). In 2003 he was admitted to the Austrian bar as attorney at law and he received his doctoral degree at the University Vienna. He is also a permanent author of the scientific journal SWI.

 
Robert Waldburger

Born in 1954 in Grenchen, he studied economics at the University of St Gallen. Thereafter he served for four years as Assistant, completing studies in law during this period. From 1978 to 1989 he worked as Principal Advisor on International Tax Law with the Revisuisse Group, and has been a partner at Arthur Andersen in Bern since 1992. He became Full Professor at the University of St Gallen in 1994, and was simultaneously named Director of the Department of Financial Economics and Financial Law. From 1998 - 2007 he acted in addition to his functions at the University of St. Gallen as head of the international division of the federal tax administration and Delegate for International Tax Treaties. As of December 2008 he is an Independent Tax Counsel to PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland. He is also a member of Committee of Tax Experts of the United Nations.

 

 

Dennis Weber

Dennis Weber (1970) is a Professor of European Corporate Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is in charge of the international and European tax legislation research that has been accommodated at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) of the UvA. He is affiliated to Loyens & Loeff as of counsel, where he is in charge of the European tax law team. Weber is a deputy judge at the Den Bosch Court of Appeal, where he is primarily involved in cases related to European tax law. He published several academic publications and one is the book 'Tax avoidance and the EC treaty freedoms' (2005).
 

 
 

 

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