Experience 

Rafic Barrage is a tax partner in the Washington, DC office of Mayer Brown, where his tax practice is concentrated in the area of international tax issues of US corporations operating overseas and foreign corporations and individuals operating and investing in the United States, including planning, structuring/restructuring, tax examinations, appeals, litigation, regulations, rulings, and legislative work. His practice involves structuring, restructuring, deferral/subpart F, foreign tax credit, source of income, tax treaties, trade or business/permanent establishment, withholding tax, and other issues. 

Rafic has spoken and written on a wide variety of US international tax issues, including for the Organization for International Investment, the Tax Executives Institute, and ATLAS (the Alliance for Tax, Legal & Accounting Seminars).  Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Rafic was an associate with a large, international law firm in Washington, DC, and prior to that, a senior associate in the International Tax Services group of Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in New York.

Education 

Georgetown University Law Center, LLM in Taxation, with distinction, 2000 • Georgetown University Law Center, LLM in International and Comparative Law, with distinction, 1999 • Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law`, JD, 1998; Member, Mercer Law Review • London Guildhall University, LLB (Honours), 1995

Admitted

• United States Tax Court, 2002
• District of Columbia, 2002
• New York, 2002
• Georgia, 1999