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Stephen E. Shay
Partner
Ropes & Gray
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110-2624
T + 1-617-951-7302
F + 1-617-235-0361
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Practice
Stephen E. Shay is a tax partner with Ropes & Gray in Boston, Massachusetts. Stephen has extensive experience in the international tax area, advising clients that include large and medium-sized multinational companies, financial institutions, and global investors on issues such as foreign tax credits, deferral of U.S. taxation, foreign currency gains and losses, withholding taxes and financial product issues. Stephen regularly advises clients on transfer pricing issues and has successfully resolved numerous transfer pricing controversies with the IRS. Stephen also works with Ropes & Gray’s Private Client Group advising high net worth clients on cross-border income tax planning. Before joining Ropes & Gray in 1987, Stephen was the International Tax Counsel for the United States Department of the Treasury.
Honors & Awards
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The Best Lawyers in America (1997-2009)
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Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers (2004-2008)
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Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers (2006, 2007)
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Euromoney Legal Media, Expert Guide to the Best of the Best (2004)
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Euromoney's Guide to The World's Leading Tax Advisers
Professional & Civic Activities
Stephen is a Lecturer in Law at the Harvard Law School teaching a course on international aspects of U.S. income taxation. Stephen was the Jacquin D. Bierman Visiting Lecturer in Taxation at Yale Law School in 2004. Stephen has served as Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute's Federal Income Tax Project on Income Tax Treaties with Reporters David R. Tillinghast and Professor Hugh Ault. He also has served as Chairman of the Tax Section's Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers of the American Bar Association.
Stephen authored Revisiting U.S. Anti-Deferral Rules, 74 Taxes 1042 (1996), and has co-authored Selected International Aspects of Fundamental Tax Reform Proposals, 51 University of Miami Law Review 1029 (1997) (with Victoria P. Summers), Getting Serious About Curtailing Deferral of U.S. Tax on Foreign Source Income, 52 SMU Law Review 455 (1999) (with Robert J. Peroni and J. Clifton Fleming, Jr.), Fairness in International Taxation: The Ability-to-Pay Case for Taxing Worldwide Income, 5 Florida Tax Review 299 (2001) (with J. Clifton Fleming, Jr. and Robert J. Peroni), and The David R. Tillinghast Lecture "What's Source Got to Do With It?" Source Rules and U.S. International Taxation, 56 Tax Law Review 81 (2003) (with Robert J. Peroni and J. Clifton Fleming, Jr.). Stephen also has testified before Congress on international tax policy issues. To view a complete list of Stephen's publications and testimony, click here.
Stephen is a member of the Board of Directors of Outdoor Explorations, a community-based not-for-profit organization that promotes inclusion for people with and without disabilities through shared outdoor adventure and service.
Memberships & Affiliations
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American Bar Association, Tax Section
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American Law Institute
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International Bar Association
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International Fiscal Association
Bar Admissions
Education
- 1976,
J.D., Columbia Law School
- 1972,
B.A., Wesleyan University
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