Tax Attorney

GABRIELA BAKER

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EXPERIENCE

ERNST & YOUNG, LLP, New York, NY

Senior Associate, Tax Practice, January 2016 – April 2017

• International tax experience includes merger transactions involving multinational corporate clients’ internal taxable and tax-free reorganizations, legal entity rationalization, tax reform planning and scenario analyses, and post-merger tax compliance implications analyses.

• State and local income/franchise tax experience includes advising public and private company clients in matters related to income sourcing and audit defense, researching and preparing tax matrices and what-if-scenario analyses to track the consequences of state tax law updates for clients in industrial products, shipping, manufacturing, software, retail, and private equity.

• Sales and use tax experience includes analyzing and drafting memoranda in response to issues arising from nexus for drop shipments and cloud computing services.

• Managed multi-jurisdictional employment tax voluntary disclosure agreements for a client in consumer products.

• Researched, prepared exhibits and drafted legal briefs in the representation of a pharmaceutical company before the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board.

• Created process for responding to client tax notices and supervised staff in their execution of process, alleviating exposure to penalties and interest.

ANDERSEN TAX, LLC, New York, NY

Associate, August 2012 – December 2015

• Researched and drafted memoranda in connection with individual federal and state income tax audits and in litigation before state administrative tax boards.

• Advised high net worth individual clients on matters of state residency tax planning arising out of Connecticut and New York dual residency issues, estate planning strategies, foreign bank accounts and voluntary disclosures. MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, APPELLATE TAX BOARD, Boston, MA Law Clerk for Commissioner Frank Scharaffa, August 2011 – December 2011 SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Boston, MA Student Prosecutor, Boston Municipal Court, Summer 2011 Legal Intern, May 2010 – May 2011

FANNIE MAE, Washington, D.C.

Analyst, Credit Analytics and Mortgage Pricing, August 2007 – August 2009 EDUCATION

NEW ENGLAND LAW SCHOOL, Boston, MA

Juris Doctor, May 2012

Leadership: New England Law’s Regional Mock Trial Team Captain UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, May 2006 Leadership: Undergraduate Assembly (Elected Representative of the College of Arts and Sciences), Latino Coalition

(Secretary), Delta Delta Delta Fraternity (Activities Chair) INSTITUT VILLA PIERREFEU, Montreux, Switzerland

Diploma in International Business Etiquette, July 2004 – September 2004 BAR ADMISSION AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

New York

New York City Bar Association

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Spanish (native), French (working knowledge), German (conversant)

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