Finance Monthly Taxation Awards 2017 Winners Edition

26 FINANCE MONTHLY TAX AWARDS 2017 www. finance-monthly .com USA TRANSFER PRICING ADVISER OF THE YEAR Tel: + 1 314.802.1556 | Email: wdjames@bkd.com FIRM PROFILE BKD is a trusted, national CPA & advisory firm that understands your business and delivers the resources you need with a service style you’ll value. At BKD, we understand you want an advisor who can provide more than just accounting solutions. Our CPAs and advisors offer specialized skills and expertise, as well as the winning attitude, character and communication skills necessary to help clients achieve their objectives. Accounting for numbers— accurately, objectively and with integrity—is at the heart of our business. But we are also professional, prepared, attentive and ready to deliver our services with PRIDE: passion, respect, integrity, discipline and excellence. ADVISOR PROFILE - William D. James, Principal Will James leads BKD LLP’s national transfer pricing practice. He has been a transfer pricing consultant since 1992, primarily working with large international accounting firms and advising clients on various transfer pricing and tax valuation issues. Will has experience in transfer pricing planning, documentation, advance pricing agreements, intellectual property valuation, cost-sharing arrangements and transfer pricing controversy for clients in multiple industries. Will spent several years in the United Kingdom gaining knowledge of transfer pricing under the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development Guidelines. He is a frequent speaker on transfer pricing topics at outside tax seminars, including CITE/ BNA, the Tax Executives Institute, INFONEX, IASeminars, World Trade Centers and the St. Louis International Tax Group. He has also presented on various transfer pricing topics in Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Singapore and throughout Europe. Will currently serves as the Global Chairman of Praxity, AISBL’s Transfer Pricing Expert Working Group and is BKD’s liaison in its alliance with Transfer Pricing Associates. He is a graduate of Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, with a B.A. degree, and Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, with an M.B.A. degree in finance and international business. He serves on the board of directors at the World Trade Center St. Louis. New York - USA