Edward Tanenbaum

Edward offers his clients tax-efficient solutions for planning and structuring cross-border business transactions by multinational corporations and high-net-worth individuals. Edward played a major role in drafting tax regulations on withholding taxes on payments to nonresident aliens and foreign corporations.

Edward is senior counsel in Alston & Bird’s Federal & International Tax Group and a member of its Global Services & Strategies Committee and German Practice Team. His practice consists primarily of planning and structuring tax-efficient solutions for cross-border business transactions and investments by foreign multinational corporations and high-net-worth individuals, including through the use of double tax treaties. He has also advised on the various U.S. anti-deferral tax regimes in connection with the offshore investments of U.S. multinationals, citizens, and resident aliens; counseled on corporate inversions; and advised on numerous international and cross-border joint ventures, acquisitions, restructurings, and reorganizations. Edward focuses his overseas practice primarily on the D-A-CH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) and the Benelux countries.

Edward has made significant contributions to the drafting of the U.S. tax regulations affecting withholding taxes on payments of U.S. income to nonresident aliens and foreign corporations and has been instrumental in the creation of the IRS “Qualified Intermediary” regime applicable to foreign financial institutions.

American College of Tax Counsel, Fellow; International Fiscal Association, USA Steering Committee; International Tax Institute, past president and current director.