Adam Benson is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in New York. As US Tax Practice Leader, he oversees A&M’s Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax, Transaction Tax, Tax Technology, Global Tax Incentives, Compensation & Benefits, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, Restructuring Tax Services, National Tax, Corporate Transformation Tax, Partnership, and Private Client Services practices.

Jaap Zwaan is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Jakarta. He leads the Indonesian Tax practice, specializing in international and M&A tax. His primary areas of concentration are tax structuring, transactional tax advice, tax due diligence, and related transactional work.

Hannah Abrams Morris is Chief Financial Officer with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Tampa. Ms. Morris has more than 20 years of experience working in the financial operations of professional service firms.

Helena Lemanski is Chief Operating Officer with Alvarez & Marsal EMEA Tax in London. She has over 20 years of experience in professional services.

Jeremy Orbell is a Principal with Alvarez & Marsal’s Executive Compensation Services team in London.

Kim Barr is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax, LLC in San Francisco. He has more than 30 years of experience in advising clients in a variety of industries, including tech companies, healthcare, software, publishing and power generation.

Ken Brewer is Senior Advisor in Alvarez & Marsal’s Tax practice. He brings over 40 years of professional experience largely comprised of assisting clients in structuring multi-national business transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, capital formation, financing, joint venture formation, and transfer pricing.

Alan Cathcart is a Senior Adviser with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in San Francisco. He specializes in corporate and international tax, in particular cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A). His primary area of concentration is structuring international corporate and private equity transactions.

Charles W. Cope is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in New York. He focuses on global transaction tax. Mr. Cope brings more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of cross-border corporate taxation. He has extensive experience advising clients on complex cross-border tax issues and achieving desired tax consequences while limiting tax-controversy risk.

Rob Hawkes is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in New York City. He has more than three decades of experience in tax structuring for M&A transactions and restructuring for troubled companies. Mr. Hawkes works in the National Tax Office, supporting the U.S. Global Transactions Tax and Restructuring Tax Services practices.

Steven Klig is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Miami. He specializes in partnership tax, specifically in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). His primary area of concentration is structuring private equity transactions and joint ventures between companies.

Becky Lai is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Hong Kong. She brings over 30 years of international and People’s Republic of China (PRC) corporate tax expertise, delivering solutions to help clients navigate the dynamic, complex tax and economic environment in Greater China.

Michael Nissan is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax Compensation & Benefits in New York. He brings more than 40 years of experience, primarily advising global private equity firms and their portfolio companies in structuring management compensation arrangements.

Carl Padding is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Chicago. He brings more than four decades of experience, specializing in cost segregation services focused on commercial real estate properties and construction-related activities for federal and state tax reporting purposes.  

Wayne Plummer is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Sydney. With over 37 years’ experience in the Australian tax industry, Mr. Plummer is well recognized as a leader in the industry and as one of the foremost corporate tax advisors. Mr. Plummer has worked on many of Australia’s most iconic corporate transactions and has been a key tax advisor to a number of major Australian and international groups, assisting with corporate and international tax affairs.

Mark Young is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax, LLC, in Houston. He specializes in income tax matters. His primary areas of concentration are tax planning, compliance, and financial reporting.

Clark Chandler is a Senior Economist with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Morristown. He brings more than 45 years of experience as an applied economist and has specialized in transfer pricing analysis for over 40 years. Dr. Chandler has worked with various industries, including pharmaceuticals, technology, automotive suppliers, telecommunications, consumer products (food, beverage, and apparel), medical devices and software.

Barry Freeman is a Senior Economist with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in New York. He brings more than 30 years of transfer pricing and related economic experience advising Fortune 500 and other companies on structuring, developing, implementing and supporting transfer pricing methodologies.

Tony Hopkinson is a Director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, U.K. LLP in London. He brings more than 16 years of experience in indirect taxes and tax disputes.

Jason Landess is a Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in West Palm Beach. He specializes in tax planning and compliance for high-net-worth individuals, families, closely held businesses, and private equity principals. His primary areas of expertise include estate and trust planning, succession planning, gift tax compliance, and generation-skipping transfer tax.

Cheng Qiu is a Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Frankfurt. She specializes in transfer pricing. With more than 10 years of transfer pricing experience, Ms. Qiu has collaborated with clients in various industries, with recent projects on electric vehicles, digital business, logistics, life science, chemical, automotive, electronics and consumer goods.

Armineh Aghazarian is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Sydney. She specializes in corporate tax. Her primary areas of concentration are tax risk governance and management, tax compliance and tax advisory.

Dairon Aguilar is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Miami. He brings more than six years of experience advising middle-market businesses (including their high-net-worth individual principals) on a broad range of federal, state, and international tax areas.

Patrick Alger is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Denver, and serves with the practice’s Global Transaction Tax group. His primary areas of experience are tax due diligence and tax structuring work for private equity funds and the target companies in which they invest.