Lynette is the managing partner of Baker Tilly's Bay Area, California market. She leverages her experience in public and private industry, as well as academia, to provide effective tax consulting and planning services. Lynette is a frequent presenter for the firm's international tax practice, as well as an instructor at our national-level programming and a repeat author of the Tax Clinic section in the AICPA’s October issue of The Tax Adviser.
- Provides international tax planning and consultation to multinational organizations throughout the central U.S.
- Assists clients in maintaining tax compliance across international jurisdictions and with domestic and foreign taxing authorities
- Assists with international business start-ups, expansions, acquisitions and divestitures, including international structuring and restructuring recommendations and implementation
- Develops strategies for tax-efficient repatriation of foreign earnings, including foreign tax credit planning and treasury cash tax management strategies
- Assists foreign inbound clients with finance and tax planning, including optimized capitalization, permanent establishment analyses, treaty-based return positions and timely and accurate compliance with U.S. federal tax reporting requirements
- Assists clients with internal dialogue around tax matters, including the potential implications of proposed tax reforms and digital taxation
- Top Women in Finance, Finance and Commerce (2018)
- Women Who Lead, Minnesota Business Magazine (2018)
- “Legal entity rationalization and simplification” co-author, The Tax Adviser, October 2020
- “U.S. MNCs facing implications of economic (vs. physical) nexus” co-author, The Tax Adviser, October 2019
- "Tax reform: Individual taxpayers and the Sec. 962 election,” co-author, The Tax Adviser, October 2018
- “Key aspects of maintaining a global workforce,” co-author, The Tax Adviser, October 2017
Location
San Francisco, CA
Education
LLM in Taxation (with distinction)
Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, D.C.)
Juris Doctor
New England School of Law (Boston, Massachusetts)
Bachelor of Science in political science
Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)
