Joseph M. Doloboff is a partner with Blank Rome LLP and concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions, with a particular emphasis on tax law, and brings more than twenty-five years of experience in both the public and private sectors, specializing in working with clients in the healthcare, communications, high-technology, mining, retail, and entertainment industries. He assists his clients with all forms of business transactions, including general business tax advice on mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions for corporations and partnerships; federal, state, and international tax planning and controversies; drafting of stock and asset purchase agreements, as well as partnership and LLC agreements; and executive compensation issues. He has significant experience in cross-border planning for maximum tax efficiencies, as well as expertise in all facets of transactional planning. Prior to joining Blank Rome, Mr. Doloboff worked at a law firm where he represented private equity funds, public corporations, private entities, and high-net-worth individuals. He is the former deputy tax legislative counsel for the US Department of Treasury, and he is a frequent author and lecturer on corporate and tax issues. Among others, he has spoken before the Mergers and Acquisitions magazine annual conference, American Law Institute–American Bar Association conferences on business combinations, the New York University Tax Institute, the Practicing Law Institute Corporate Tax Program, the Tax Executives Institute, and the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Association.
William P. Elliott
William P. Elliott is a partner with Cherry Bekaert & Holland LLP. He is a certified public accountant and international tax lawyer with more than twenty-five years of diversified tax planning and compliance experience. As the firm director of international tax, he directs the specialized services and worldwide resources of the firm to meet the international tax needs of clients firm-wide. Based in the firm’s Washington office, he provides clients with a full range of international tax and accounting services, including international and offshore taxation and planning, wealth preservation and asset protection, domestic taxation, management and business consulting, and litigation and legal advisory services. He specializes in providing strategic planning and advisory services to assist clients across a wide array of industries with inbound and outbound entity transactions, foreign and domestic estate and income tax planning, transfer pricing, intangible and intellectual property valuation, asset protection planning, captive insurance arrangements, expatriate taxation, offshore e-commerce planning, and corporate and passthrough entity taxation and consulting. He has extensive experience serving clients across several industries, including the manufacturing, distribution, insurance, retail, financial, transportation, not-for-profit, telecommunications, media, and franchisee sectors. Prior to joining the firm, he served as the managing international tax partner for Mahoney Cohen and Company in New York, and he previously served as a managing member of DECOSIMO Global. Mr. Elliott writes and edits extensively for a variety of leading domestic and international tax journals and publications. He has also developed international tax continuing professional education programs, and he speaks frequently at leading tax and international tax programs directed to practitioners as well as individuals and companies. Mr. Elliott graduated with honors from Millsaps College, where he received his BBA in accounting. He received his JD from the Concord Law School, and graduated summa cum laude with an LLM in international taxation from St. Thomas University School of Law. Licensed to practice as a certified public accountant in Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, Tennessee, and Virginia, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; the Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi Societies of CPAs; the International Tax Planning Association; and the International Fiscal Association. In addition, he is a credentialed business valuation and appraisal professional, holding the "accredited in business valuation" and "certified valuation analyst" designations.
Joseph K. Fletcher III
Joseph K. Fletcher III is a partner with Morrison & Foerster LLP and advises on all aspects of corporate and partnership taxation, as well as on significant international tax issues. He has advised both emerging companies and Fortune 500 companies on issues ranging from the establishment of new operations to the cross-border acquisition of foreign corporations by US-based or foreign-based multinational companies. He regularly advises on the formation of limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and corporations. He has advised both high-technology companies and traditional bricks-and-mortar companies. He has extensive cross-border experience, ranging from the establishment of operations to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures involving Japanese, Chinese, UK, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish parties. He has led controversies with the Internal Revenue Service, with many matters being resolved favorably at the exam level. He has also led controversies with state tax authorities regarding nexus issues. He advises numerous clients on issues relating to the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts. In private practice, he has led controversies against the Internal Revenue Service on issues ranging from transfer pricing to consolidated return calculations. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, he served as a trial attorney for the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Fletcher is a frequent speaker on the tax issues that arise on the licensing, sale, and development of intellectual property, and he advises on issues arising in the contribution, development, and licensing of intellectual property. He is an adjunct professor of tax law at Golden Gate University School of Law, where he teaches taxation of intellectual property and taxation of mergers and acquisitions. He is a member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions.
Sean M. King
Sean M. King is a partner with Williams Mullen and is chair of the firm's International Tax Practice Group, where he focuses on international business transactions and taxation. His practice focuses on international tax planning for both the outbound operations of U.S. multinationals and the inbound operations of foreign multinationals. This includes advice on structuring mergers and acquisitions, internal restructurings and operations, joint ventures, external and internal financings, and transfer pricing matters, including the cross-border transfer and licensing of intellectual property.
Prior to joining Williams Mullen, Mr. King was a partner with one of the world's most notable tax advisory practices. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court. He is also a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, where he serves as a member of the Council of the International Law Section. He is the author of multiple publications on international taxation and is a regular speaker on the cross-border structuring of investments. In 2009, He was honored to be included inThe International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers. Mr. King received his master of laws degree in taxation, magna cum laude, from the Chicago-Kent School of Law, his JD, cum laude, from Michigan State University College of Law, and his BA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
