Senior Counsel

Kenneth Klein

Fund Formation & Investment Management, International Tax & Transfer Pricing, Investment Management

Washington DC +1 202 263 3377

kklein@mayerbrown.com

Ken “specializes in international tax of the utmost complexity."

Legal 500

Overview

Kenneth Klein counsels his client on matters related to international taxation, tax planning, tax transactions, tax controversies, and public policy. His experience includes advising clients on tax-related aspects of a variety of transactions, as well as regulations, legislation, private letter rulings, examinations, administrative appeals, and amicus briefs. He represents domestic and international clients in a range of industries, including manufacturing, shipping, finance, software, technology, pharmaceuticals, services, real estate, agricultural, trading and entertainment. Ken represents the shipping industry in the OECD Pillar One and Pillar Two projects.

Ken has experience with outbound investments, inbound investments, structuring/restructuring, joint ventures, income bifurcation and amalgamation, controlled foreign corporations (subpart F), investments in US property, offshore intangibles, manufacturing, contract manufacturing, shipping, active royalties and rentals, software, other high tech, services, trading, insurance, source of income, foreign tax credits, and interest and other expense allocation and apportionment. His financial institutions experience extends to cross-border financings, portfolio interest, conduit financing arrangements, withholding tax, tax treaties, investment funds (stock, securities, commodities, venture capital, real estate and shipping), swaps, other derivatives, CDOs, other structured finance vehicles, catastrophe bonds, US and foreign stock and securities lending, foreign tax credit, source of income, and transfer pricing. He also has experience with the taxation of artists and athletes and international individual tax planning.

Prior to working at Mayer Brown, Ken worked at the IRS, first as Assistant Branch Chief and Attorney, Legislation & Regulations Division and General Litigation Division (1977-1981), and later as the Associate Chief Counsel (Technical) (1988-1990).

Recognition

Named to Legal 500 Hall of Fame: Tax, International Tax
“Font of practical advice.” - Legal 500
Named to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers by Euromoney/International Tax Review.
Named among "Best Tax Lawyers" in Washington DC by Washingtonian Magazine and Washington Post Magazine.
Featured as a “Leading Lawyer” for tax in Washington DC by Super Lawyers.
Received the “Distinguished Service Scroll Award” from the University of Georgia School of Law.
Former Chair, Washinton International Tax Study Group
Former Board member and President, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

Education

The University of Georgia School of Law, JD, cum laude
Articles Editor, Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
Georgetown University Law Center, Masters of Laws in Taxation
University of Delaware, BA, magna cum laude

Admissions

District of Columbia

Courts

US Supreme Court
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
US Tax Court
US District Court for the District of Columbia
US Court of Federal Claims

Professional & Community Involvement

Board of Trustees, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, 2009–; Vice President, 2014-2016; President, 2016-2018
Board of Visitors, University of Georgia School of Law
Law Alumni Board, Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center
Dean Rusk International Law Center Council, University of Georgia School of Law
Board of Advisors, Dean Rusk Center - International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies, University of Georgia School of Law
Distinguished Service Scroll Award, University of Georgia School of Law, June 2009
Chair, Washington International Tax Study Group
Board of Trustees, The Langley School (McLean, Va), Chair (1999-2001) and Member (1994-2001)
American Society of International Law, Past Chair, Budget Committee, and Past Member, Budget Committee, Executive Committee and Executive Council, and International Taxation Correspondent-International Legal Materials
Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
American Bar Association (Taxation Section)
International Fiscal Association