Tax in the City® New York

Kristen E. Hazel has extensive experience representing clients in US and international aspects of federal tax matters, including international acquisitions and divestitures, international joint ventures, and capital plan design and implementation, including tax planning with respect to intellectual property. Her work includes both inbound and outbound transactions.

Kristen is the co-head of the Firm’s Captive Insurance Affinity Group. She regularly counsels clients with respect to the tax aspects of organizing, operating and defending captive insurance companies. She is head of the Firm’s New Business Committee and is a member of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility Committee.

Kristen frequently speaks on captive insurance, domestic and international tax topics for various professional organizations.

Kristen is a co-founder of Tax in the City: A Tax Roundtable®, which consists of tax professionals with an interest in discussing substantive tax issues in a collegial and confidential setting.

Sandra McGill focuses her practice on international tax planning. Sandra works with US and non-US multinational companies, public and private as well as high net worth individuals and family businesses. Sandra has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of cross-border tax issues, including the following:

• Foreign tax credit planning
• Subpart F and PFIC anti-deferral rules
• Source of income and withholding tax issues and compliance, including obtaining Treaty relief
• Foreign currency recognition rules under Sections 985-989
• US trade or business or local country permanent establishment (PE) issues
• Section 367 and other subchapter C issues related to cross-border restructurings, acquisitions and financings, including issues with respect to intellectual property

Sandra works with an extensive network of non-US lawyers on developing multi-jurisdictional business structures such as centralized sales and services and finance company structures.

Sandra is a co-founder of Tax in the City®: A Tax Roundtable, which consists of tax professionals who meet regularly to discuss substantive tax issues in a confidential setting.