Robena Jafari is a tax partner and Baker Tilly’s leader of international tax services and transfer pricing. Throughout her 15 years in public accounting, Robena has established herself as a specialist within these disciplines.
- Extensive experience planning and implementing strategic cross-border tax strategies, in particular:
-Offshore intelligence property holding companies
-Value chain planning/restructurings
-Cross-border transactions, including pre-acquisition planning, tax due diligence and post-acquisition integration
-U.S. anti-deferral planning (i.e., subpart F provisions and GILTI)
-Foreign tax credit optimization strategies
-Income tax treaty interpretation and analysis
-Effectively connected income to a U.S. trade or business analyses and planning, including FIRPTA - Works with a variety of private and public companies across multiple industries, including technology, life sciences, software as a service (SaaS), financial services, alternative investments, retail and manufacturing
- Expertise includes planning, reporting, compliance, global transfer pricing and ASC 740
- Began her career as in-house tax counsel for a large
multi-national public technology company
- Leadership Committee Member, How Women Lead
Location
California
Education
Juris Doctorate
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
Masters
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Masters
Golden Gate University (San Francisco, California)