H. David Rosenbloom is a member in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, DC office. He rejoined the firm in 1981 after serving as a Special Assistant and then International Tax Counsel and Director of the Office of International Tax Affairs in the US Treasury Department from 1977 to 1981.
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Mr. Rosenbloom's major areas of practice include international tax planning and controversies, including transfer pricing and advance pricing agreements, the foreign tax credit and subpart F, tax treaty issues and competent authority proceedings, financial products and financial institutions, taxation of all forms of inbound investment, and individual tax compliance in a cross-border context.
Highlights Mr. Rosenbloom has served as a Tax Policy Advisor for the US Treasury, the OECD, US AID, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank in Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries, the former Soviet Union, Senegal, Malawi, and South Africa. He has consulted with and advised foreign governments and international organizations on international tax matters, and served as an expert witness in international tax disputes both in the United States and abroad. Mr. Rosenbloom has also served as an expert witness in courts in Canada and New Zealand.
He has also written extensively on international and comparative tax topics. His most recent writings discuss the Fifth Protocol to the US Income Tax Treaty with Canada,
Taxation Trends in the Obama Era, and techniques for Resolving International Tax Disputes. He also he did a
podcast discussing taxation issues in the Obama administration with LexisNexis®.
Professional Activities
- James S. Eustice Visiting Professor of Taxation and the Director of the International Tax Program at New York University School of Law
- Lecturer on international taxation at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia Law schools, and at universities in Sydney, Melbourne, Milan, Bergamo, Mexico City, Mainz and Heidelberg, and Rio de Janeiro
- Instructed at the University of Pretoria, the Universita del Piemonte Orientale in Italy, the Max Planck Institut in Munich, Seoul National University, the Public Finance Training Center in Taipei, and the OECD Multilateral Training Centres for Tax Offices from CIS and Eastern European Countries in Vienna, Ankara, and Budapest
Awards and Honors
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Tax Law from 1989-2010 as well as in Super Lawyers in 2007, 2008 and 2009
- Recognized as a leader in international tax in Chambers Global (2008) and Chambers USA (2008 and 2009): 2008 - Band 1 in Tax - District of Columbia; 2009 - Band 1 in Tax - District of Columbia and Band 2 in Tax: Controversy - Nationwide
- Acknowledged by Legal Media Group in their Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers - Best of the Best USA 2009 as well as in their Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers
- Recommended by PLC Which Lawyer? for international transfer pricing issues and AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and "Top Lawyer" in the December 2009 edition of Washingtonian magazine
Selected Recent Publications