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 Mr. Fink currently serves as the firm’s Co-Managing Partner as well as head of the Firm's Tax and Tax Litigation practice. He also chairs the International Law Practice where he is active in mergers and acquisitions, transactional law and international law. Mr. Fink manages an exceptionally active and dynamic practice with a significant emphasis in negotiating and structuring international business transactions, particularly those involving multinational corporations. Recently, Mr. Fink represented a large alcohol beverage corporation in Poland in its acquisition by an international, French-based company. He also represented a U.S.-based client in the purchase of a meat-packing facility from a Japanese cartel. In any given year, Mr. Fink is also typically litigating cases in the United States Tax Court. Among Mr. Fink's other accomplishments is his role as lead counsel in the purchase and/or sale of more than 30 hotels and casinos located in the United States and in several foreign countries. Mr. Fink is also acknowledged as an expert in corporate/fiduciary law litigation and trust administration. Some of Mr. Fink's practice specialties are as follows: Tax Litigation: Mr. Fink counsels clients in connection with audit controversies and in the prosecution and/or defense of income tax litigation in the United States Tax Court, United States Claims Court and the United States District Courts. Mr. Fink litigates California Franchise Tax and Property Tax controversies, including administrative appeals and representations. Mr. Fink litigated the application of the California premium tax to self-insured utility companies as well as highly successful property tax appeals of assessments against sanitary landfills, golf courses, hotels, office buildings, oil refineries and other special-use properties. Mergers and Acquisitions: Mr. Fink regularly represents corporations (and/or shareholders) in both acquisitions and sales of major business interests and strategic alliances. Hotels and Casinos: Mr. Fink has represented owners and operators of hotels and casinos in the acquisition, licensing, construction, operation, purchase and sale of properties in California, Nevada and foreign venues such as Australia, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Automotive Importers and Distributors: Mr. Fink has represented importers and retail distributors of automotive products in California and throughout the United States in connection with regulatory issues and dispute resolution between dealers and suppliers. Foreign and International Business Transactions: Mr. Fink represents U.S. companies and interests doing business in foreign countries as well as foreign business interests and companies desiring to do business in the United States . In this regard, Mr. Fink's practice includes not only hiring and supervising local counsel as appropriate, but developing an understanding of the laws of foreign jurisdictions, understanding and adapting to foreign business practices and cultural requirements and effectuating complex transactions between multinational parities under difficult and challenging circumstances. Trust/Estate Administration: Mr. Fink specializes in counseling corporate fiduciaries on trust administration and dispute resolution in matters involving co-trustees and beneficiaries. His clients include major national and international trust companies as well as three of America's largest national banks. Mr. Fink has served as a tax advisor to and member of President Jimmy Carter's Tax Advisory Committee, as legal advisor to the Los Angeles County Sheriff and as a lecturer for California Continuing Legal Education, the American Bar Association, the American Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Society of Automotive CPAs. Mr. Fink is a life-member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California State Bar, the Illinois State Bar, the Federal District Bar as well as the Bar of the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Courts of California and Illinois. Mr. Fink is also a member of the bars of the United States Tax Court, the United States Claims Court and various Courts of Appeal. Mr. Fink has received a variety of honors including membership in the National Registry of Who's Who and has recently been named one of Los Angeles 's 100 Most Influential Attorneys by Los Angeles Magazine. Mr. Fink's other community service activities include past service as a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern California March of Dimes, working as an active supporter of City of Hope and, currently,as a member of the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of MERITAS Law Firms Worldwide. Mr. Fink has also been recognized as a Southern California "Super Lawyer" by the editors of Law & Politics and Los Angeles Magazine. Mr. Fink was born in 1938 in Bay City, Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from DePaul University in Chicago and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School. A college debater and law school moot court champion, Mr. Fink earned his license as a certified public accountant in 1962 and his law degree in 1963. After law school, Mr. Fink served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard B. Austin, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, while attending post graduate courses and serving as a member of the faculty of the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. In 1964 Mr. Fink entered the private practice of law with Bell, Boyd, Lloyd, Haddad and Burns in Chicago. He subsequently served as a trial attorney with the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. (1967 -1969). During his tenure with the Department of Justice, Mr. Fink worked under the direction of the Assistant for Civil Trials and served as lead litigation counsel in major tax refund cases filed in the Unites States District Courts throughout the Unites States. In 1969, Mr. Fink joined the law firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Finnel, Rothman and Kuchel in Beverly Hills as a tax and tax litigation attorney, and subsequently a partner and head of the Tax Department, before joining with several fellow partners to found his current firm. PRACTICE AREAS
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by Barry Fink
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