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Soo-Jeong Ahn

Soo-Jeong Ahn practices in the firm’s international tax team and also a member of the firm’s corporate & finance and real estate & construction practice teams. She has vast experience in the areas of tax and corporate law aspects of cross-border transactions and litigation of foreign and domestic clients as well as a number of significant real property and M&A transactions in Korea. She is a frequent speaker and contributor in international conferences and legal journals and is cited as Asia’s leading business lawyer by Chambers & Partners.She is a member of New York Bar and, before joining Yulchon, practiced law in the New York offices of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Shearman & Sterling and with Kim & Chang Law Offices in Korea, specializing in tax, financial regulations, cross-border real property and M&A transactions. Immediately prior to joining Yulchon, she served as inhouse counsel for Citibank.Ms. Ahn is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley (B.A. with magna cum laude in Economics); she obtained J.D. and tax LL.M. degrees from New York University School of law.

Louis Lutz

Louis Lutz specialises in Dutch domestic and international tax law with a focus on (cross-border) M&A, private equity and debt/equity capital markets transactions. He has experience in private equity and real estate fund formation and structured finance. He is a member of our dedicated M&A tax team.

In 2011 he was seconded to a U.S. and English law firm in London for four months and from 2011 to 2014 he worked at our London office.

Louis is a frequent speaker on M&A tax related topics and he lectures at various post-graduate M&A courses. He has also written articles on M&A tax issues.

Louis was nominated as Best M&A Tax Advisor 2018.

Amelia O'Beirne

Amelia O'Beirne is a Tax Partner in the firm's Dublin office. She has extensive experience of advising domestic and international clients on the tax aspects of corporate restructurings, complex cross border financing transactions, US multinational tax planning, mergers and acquisitions. She advises a broad base of clients in various business sectors, including insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, investment funds, banking and aircraft leasing.

Ryan Rabinovitch

Ryan Rabinovitch is a partner in the Tax group. Ryan’s practice deals with all aspects of tax law, with a particular focus on tax planning and tax litigation.

Over the years, Ryan has held a variety of positions in the legal profession, from which he has gained broad expertise. He worked as a comparative law clerk for Mr. Aharon Barak, then the President of the Supreme Court of Israel, and served as law clerk to the Honourable Louise Arbour, then a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Before joining Fasken, Ryan practised with an international law firm.

Miguel Pimentel

Miguel has developed his legal activity since 2004, specializing in tax consulting, restructuring, and international tax planning for multinational businesses operating in multiple sectors. He gained a particularly relevant experience advising clients in complex M&A transactions, business restructurings and with the taxation of financial products. Between October 2015 and March 2018 he worked in New York where he provided tax advice for financial sector clients including banks, insurance and reinsurance companies and asset managers (pension funds, hedge funds and private equity funds) on international transactions.

Miguel was Deputy to the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs between 2012 and 2013. In this capacity he participated in multiple law-making projects in the tax area and officially represented the Secretary of State in several international tax policy meetings and negotiations. He was also a Member of the Corporate Income Tax Reform Committee (2013).

Fernando Tonanni

Fernando is a tax specialist with strong knowledge of corporate law and extensive experience in advising international and Brazilian based clients in the tax aspects involved in their businesses. His focus includes tax consultancy, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, financial transactions, transfer pricing and administrative litigation. He is a frequent lecturer in events in Brazil and abroad, besides being visiting professor of international tax law at Brazilian institutions. Fernando has previous experience in a wide scope of industries such as automotive, agricultural, banking, energy, investment funds, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, retail, services, and transports.

Joe Duffy

Joe Duffy is a partner in the tax group at Matheson. Joe has 20 years’ experience in corporate tax law and advises on international restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, tax controversy and transfer pricing. Joe’s clients include many of the leading multinational corporations established in Ireland, primarily in the pharmaceutical, technology, industrial and service sectors.

Joe speaks regularly on international tax matters in Ireland and abroad. He has also written extensively on international tax matters. Joe has been an active contributor to Irish and OECD tax policy directly and through industry bodies for many years and is an officer on the International Bar Association Taxes Committee. Joe is the only Irish tax advisor ranked as a Who’s Who Thought Leader in Tax Controversy for 2019.

Joe is a qualified solicitor, chartered accountant and tax adviser in Ireland, and has qualified as an attorney in New York. Joe previously worked in a Big Four accountancy practice and as in-house tax counsel for a US multinational.