Kim Marie Boylan

Kim Marie Boylan heads White & Case's tax controversy group globally and served as the Global Head of Tax for seven years. She is a highly respected tax attorney with a long track record of creating innovative, practical approaches for the successful resolution of tax disputes. A renowned tax litigator, she also effectively utilizes the IRS's administrative appeals procedures, fast track, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution processes. She is highly regarded by clients and her peers for her ability to negotiate the successful resolution of sensitive, high-stakes disputes.

Kim represents a broad spectrum of domestic and multi-national companies on sophisticated domestic and international tax issues. Her practice encompasses transfer pricing, as well as the Advance Pricing Agreement and competent authority processes, areas of practice that are greatly enhanced by her credentials as a Certified Public Accountant. She has also represented clients in various international arbitration matters and has served as an expert on U.S. taxation issues in connection with arbitral proceedings. Kim has also testified on behalf of clients before the United States Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service and the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

While her practice focuses mainly on civil tax matters, throughout her career she has also successfully represented clients on criminal tax matters. Clients also turn to her to conduct internal investigations when tax issues are implicated. Kim is also one of only a handful of tax controversy lawyers who represented a Swiss bank in connection with the U.S. Department of Justice's Program for Non-Prosecution or Non-Target Letters for Swiss Banks. This has been the keystone of the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to ferret out U.S. taxpayers who have failed to report their foreign bank accounts held in Swiss Banks. It is an unprecedented program that implicates civil as well as criminal tax matters.

As a recognized authority on privilege, Kim often advises companies in connection with the complicated issues that arise in this area, and numerous clients seek her knowledge and insight in judicial proceedings in the United States Tax Court, United States Court of Federal Claims, and in various district and appellate courts.

Kim is a frequent speaker on tax controversy, transfer pricing and accounting policy issues, and writes extensively on these issues. She is a member of the J. Edgar Murdock Inn of Court at the United States Tax Court.