Pacific Rim Tax Conference Agenda 2025

Continental Breakfast & Registration

Welcome and Introductions

• Dr. Stewart Karlinsky; Executive Director; Pacific Tax Policy Institute
• Grace Chu; Vice President, Co-Chair, Silicon Valley Tax Directors Group; Tax and Treasurer, Dolby Laboratories
• Representative; TEI Silicon Valley

Impact of Tax Legislation and Court Decisions on Corporate World including two AMTs, Transfer Pricing

• Heather Schafroth; Associate; Caplin & Drysdale
• Mirko Severi; Associate; Maisto e Associati
• William Skinner; Partner; Fenwick
• Julia Ushakova-Stein; Partner; Baker McKenzie

BEPS Pillar 1, DST & Section 861 Cloud and Digital Content Regulations

• Quyen Huynh; Principal; KPMG
• Aurelio Massimiano; Partner; Maisto e Associati
• Ansgar Simon; Partner; Covington

Coffee Break

GloBE & BEPS Pillar 2 Current Developments: QDMTT, Top-Up Taxes (IIR & UTPR), Safe Harbors

• Gary Sprague; Partner; Baker McKenzie [Moderator]
• Matthew Cambi; Principal; PwC
• Marcus Heyland; Principal; KPMG
• Mike Knobler; Partner; Fenwick

Lunch and Keynote Speaker

• Manal Corwin; Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration; OECD

M&A post-BEPS: Stock vs Asset vs Deemed Asset Acquisitions; Post-Acquisition IP; Materiality Disclosure and Impact on Different ETRs

• Angela Evans; Tax Partner; EY
• Gabe Gartner; Principal National Tax Services; PwC
• Lucas Giardelli, Partner, Mayer Brown
• Greg Hartker; Partner; Morgan Lewis

Government Officials Administrative Round Table Discussion ICAP, Peer Review, Qualified Status, Dispute Resolution, Self-Certification, GAAR, Economic Substance

• Elizabeth Stevens; Member; Caplin & Drysdale [Moderator]
• Ryo Niiro; Deputy Director, Large Enterprise Division; National Tax Agency; Japan
• Jin-oong Suh; Senior Advisor; Kim & Chang
• Nicole Welch; Director; Treaty and Transfer Pricing Operations Practice; LB&I; Internal Revenue Service (Invited)

Reception–Sponsored by Lockton Tax Liability Insurance Company

Continental Breakfast and the Impact of India’s New Budget on Corporations

• Mukesh Butani, Managing Partner; BMR Legal

United Nations Perspectives

• Michael Lennard; UN Chief of International Tax Cooperation & Trade

“Qualified Subsidy” What are permissible and what is not?

• OECD & Government Officials
• Dr. Gianmarco Cottani; Head of Tax; NOEMA Global

Coffee Break

Government Panel #1: Breakout Sessions and Round Table Discussions

1A: Japan

• Dai Hirose; Director (Digital Economy), International Operations Division, National Tax Agency; Japan
• Ryo Niiro; Deputy Director, Large Enterprise Division, National Tax Agency; Japan
• Shintaro Yamaguchi; Partner; PwC Tokyo

1B: India

• Mukesh Butani; Founder and Managing Partner; BMR Legal
• Mahesh Jaising, Partner; Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu; India (Invited)
• Pankaj Jindal; Joint Secretary (TPL2); India Revenue Service

Lunch and Keynote Speaker

• Derek Theurer; Counselor to the Secretary; U.S. Department of the Treasury (Invited)

Government Panel #2: Breakout Sessions and Round Table Discussions

2A: Australia

• Simone Bridges; Partner; Baker McKenzie
• Mark Konza; Special Counsel; MinterEllison
• John Stowell; Senior Vice President – Tax, Incentives & Int’l Financial Reporting; The Walt Disney Company
• Hector Thompson or Rebecca Saint; Deputy Commissioner, Australian Tax Office (Invited)

2B: South Korea

• Sungpal Kang; Assistant Commissioner for International Cooperation; National Tax Service; Korea

Government Panel #3: Breakout Sessions and Round Table Discussions

3A: Vietnam

• Michael Quigley; Tax Attorney [Moderator]
• Dang Ngoc Minh; Deputy Director General, General Department of Taxation; Vietnam (Invited)

3B: Brazil

• Lionel Nobre; Vice President, Tax; Dell Technologies; Latin America
• Cláudia Lúcia Pimentel Martins da Silva; Subsecretary of Taxation and Litigation; Federal Revenue Service of Brazil
  OR Daniel Teixeira Prates; Tax Officer; Federal Revenue Service of Brazil
• Romero Tavares; Partner; PwC