Michael is an International Tax partner with Deloitte Tax LLP's Value Chain Alignment and is located in Chicago. Michael focuses on helping multinational companies optimize their value chain from a tax perspective.
Over the past 17 years Michael has helped many clients in the manufacturing, consumer products, and services industries realign their value chains (Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality) in both Europe and Asia creating tax efficient structures utilizing principal or central entrepreneur companies located in Switzerland, Ireland, Singapore, and other jurisdictions.
These tax efficient structures typically involve the conversion of local sales companies into stripped or limited risk distributors and buy-sell manufacturing companies into toll or contract manufacturers operating under the direction of the European or Asian principal company.
Many of these projects involved reviewing the optimal location to hold the company's intellectual property (IP) and structuring the transfer of such IP.
Michael received a Bachelor of Science - Accounting degree from Indiana University and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is also a CPA and a licensed Illinois attorney.
$14B FMCG Company
- Led Business Transformation workstream for the design and implementation of a European Principal Company model.
$6B Global Leading Chemicals Company
- Business Transformation lead for a European Principal Company design and implementation.
$5B Global Leading Chemicals Company
- Engagement partner for the feasibility design and implementation of a European Principal Company model.
$6B FMCG Company
- Engagement partner for the feasibility design and implementation of a European Principal Company model.
$5B Cereal Company
- Program manager for feasibility, design, and implementation of European Principal Company model.