Julia Klann

National US Corporate Tax Leader, Tax Services at DOANE GRANT THORNTON

Speaker

Julia Klann is a Partner in the US Corporate Tax Group at Grant Thornton. Leveraging more than 15 years of experience, she assists clients with US and cross-border tax issues, including international structuring and transaction planning, in addition to matters related to US tax compliance. As a subject matter expert in the field of US and cross-border tax, Julia has advised clients on numerous cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. In addition, she has in-depth knowledge of US international outbound tax law and the US tax laws for controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) that allow her to provide structuring advice that makes sense from a business perspective, while managing US tax exposures for her clients. Julia works closely with her Canadian and transfer pricing colleagues, as well as her international network to structure tax favourable US investments. Julia has also designed and taught two US tax courses for the University of Waterloo and has been named in the bestselling book Total Rethink as the best tax mind in US deal planning.