Shane Koball

Director of Economics at BAKER MCKENZIE

Shane Koball is a director of economics for Baker & McKenzie Consulting LLC in New York, specializing in transfer pricing planning and dispute resolution. Shane has extensive experience in advising multinational corporations on transfer pricing planning, compliance, and dispute resolution, as well as supply chain planning and business restructuring. He has advised clients in a variety of industries including industrial manufacturing, life sciences, retail and consumer products, and technology and media. Shane's practice involves advising clients on tax and transfer pricing aspects of supply chain planning and business restructuring, and on dispute resolution via Advanced Pricing Agreements (APA), Mutual Agreement Procedures, and audit and appeals defense. He has extensive experience in intangible property planning and audit defense, and has advised clients on complex bilateral and multilateral APA negotiations involving various tax jurisdictions around the world. Shane has provided economic analysis and support to many high-value transfer pricing disputes in the U.S. and Europe. Shane also advises clients on assessing compliance and controversy risk in the face of evolving rules and regulations for global transfer pricing, for example, the OECD's two-pillar solution to international taxation and the recent overhaul of transfer pricing rules in Brazil.