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About Prager Metis
Prager Metis is a top international advisory and accounting firm with over 100 partners and principals, more than 600 team members, and twenty-four offices worldwide.
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Our team comprises a team of skilled professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional service. Prager Metis helps make Your World. Worth More.
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Our team at Prager Metis has wide-ranging expertise in inbound and outbound regulations concerning global and U.S. tax systems. We routinely leverage our vast knowledge to overcome cultural barriers between our international desk locations and the United States, ensuring a seamless transition for your business operations.
Our deep understanding of the nuances and intricacies that exist within these distinct regulatory frameworks allows us to provide comprehensive solutions tailored to your specific needs.
Customized solutions meticulously crafted to align with your unique organizational goals and challenges
Elite cadre of cross-functional specialists spanning multiple disciplines
Agile and adaptable approach, ensuring seamless integration with your existing systems and processes
Cutting-edge methodologies and best practices honed through years of experience
Advisory
Our international advisory services provide strategic guidance for multinational enterprises navigating complex global business environments. We deliver comprehensive cross-border advisory solutions encompassing regulatory compliance frameworks, international market entry strategies, and multinational corporate governance optimization.
How it helps your business: Strategic international advisory services are crucial for businesses expanding globally. Our expertise helps you navigate complex international regulations, optimize global business structures, minimize cross-border risks, and capitalize on international opportunities while ensuring compliance with multiple jurisdictional requirements.
Audit & Accounting
Our international audit and accounting services ensure compliance with global financial reporting standards across multiple jurisdictions. We provide comprehensive IFRS and GAAP convergence audits, cross-border consolidation procedures, foreign subsidiary audit coordination, and multinational statutory compliance auditing.
How it helps your business: International audit and accounting services are essential for maintaining financial integrity across global operations. Our services ensure compliance with international financial reporting standards, provide stakeholders with reliable financial information, and support informed decision-making for your international business activities.
Business Management
Our international business management services optimize operational efficiency for multinational organizations through comprehensive cross-border business process management. We provide organizational structure optimization, global performance management systems, cross-border workflow automation, and multinational project management.
How it helps your business: Effective international business management is critical for maximizing operational efficiency across global operations. Our services help you streamline cross-border processes, optimize international resource allocation, enhance global operational coordination, and achieve consistent performance standards across all international business units.
Client Accounting
Our international client accounting services support businesses with accurate reporting, day-to-day accounting, reconciliations, and advisory support. We help organizations maintain clean financial records while staying aligned with local and international requirements.
How it helps your business: Centralized international client accounting services are crucial for maintaining financial control across global operations. Our services help you standardize accounting processes internationally, ensure accurate multi-currency financial reporting, optimize global cash management, and maintain consistent financial controls while reducing administrative overhead.
Due Diligence
Our due diligence services provide careful review and practical insight for transactions, expansions, and strategic decisions. We assess financial, operational, and compliance factors to help clients make informed international business decisions.
How it helps your business: Thorough international due diligence is essential for making informed cross-border investment decisions. Our services help you identify potential international risks and opportunities, validate financial information across multiple jurisdictions, ensure regulatory compliance in target markets, and make confident decisions regarding international business transactions.
M&A
Our international M&A services facilitate mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, and investment activity across borders. We support valuation, transaction planning, integration strategy, tax considerations, and post-deal business alignment.
How it helps your business: International M&A transactions require specialized expertise to navigate complex cross-border regulatory environments. Our services help you identify strategic international opportunities, structure tax-efficient cross-border transactions, manage multinational regulatory approvals, and execute successful international acquisitions while minimizing transaction risks.
Tax Planning
Our international tax planning services optimize global tax efficiency through sophisticated cross-border tax strategies and compliance frameworks. We provide comprehensive international tax structuring, transfer pricing optimization, foreign tax credit planning, and multinational tax treaty utilization.
How it helps your business: Effective international tax planning is essential for businesses operating across borders. Our services help you optimize your global tax position, ensure compliance with international tax regulations, minimize global tax liabilities, and maximize after-tax returns on your cross-border investments and operations.
Wealth Managment
Our international wealth management services provide sophisticated cross-border wealth preservation and growth strategies for high-net-worth individuals and families with global assets. We offer comprehensive international investment portfolio management, cross-border estate planning, and global tax-efficient investment structuring.
How it helps your business: International wealth management is essential for preserving and growing assets across global markets. Our services help you optimize international investment performance, minimize global tax exposure on investments, ensure compliance with international wealth reporting requirements, and implement effective cross-border wealth preservation strategies.
PM ITS
PM ITS provides integrated IT, cybersecurity, and digital transformation solutions tailored to address the complex needs of today's businesses. We offer various services, including managed services, cloud modernization, compliance support, strategic IT planning, and vendor management.
How it helps your business: Modern businesses require robust IT infrastructure and cybersecurity frameworks to operate effectively in global markets. Our integrated technology services help you modernize your IT systems, enhance cybersecurity posture, ensure regulatory compliance across jurisdictions, and leverage digital transformation to improve operational efficiency and support international business growth.
Our International Team
Andrea Fantozzi
Partner, Italy Desk
Arvinder Matharu
Partner, UK Desk
John Barka
Partner, Turkey Desk
Ricky Nagano
Partner, Japan Desk
Smadar Rinat
Partner, Israel Desk
Yihong Shao
Partner, China Desk
ASSOCIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Prager Metis stays ahead of the curve by being a valuable member of organizations that bolster our reputation, network, and reach. Our active involvement in professional associations and industry groups allows us to collaborate with peers, share best practices, and contribute to the advancement of the accounting and tax profession.
GGI GLOBAL
The leading global alliance of independent professional services firms addressing their clients' local and cross-border needs.
ICAEW
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales - This global affiliation gives our clients access to expert resources across 190 countries.
ISO 27001
Security standard that validates our Information Security Management System while protecting sensitive company and customer data.
WHY WORK WITH PRAGER METIS
Prager Metis stays ahead of the curve by being a valuable member of organizations that bolster our reputation, network, and reach. Our active involvement in professional associations and industry groups allows us to collaborate with peers, share best practices, and contribute to the advancement of the accounting and tax profession.
- U.S. tax structuring for foreign-owned companies entering the United States
- Entity selection and setup assistance for new business operations
- Tax treaty review and residency planning
- Branch, subsidiary, and partnership planning for international businesses
- Foreign investor tax planning and compliance support
- Foreign investor tax planning and compliance support
- Foreign investor tax planning and compliance support
Inbound (Foreigner Persons and Businesses Investing in the US) - Advising foreign businesses on how to expand into the US in a tax-efficient manner requires expertise in U.S. tax law and a holistic approach focused on integrating US tax planning options with home country ownership and tax rules.
- Inbound acquisition and investment planning
- Cross-border ownership and reporting requirements
- Tax-efficient business expansion guidance
- State and local tax considerations for foreign-owned entities
- Ongoing advisory for U.S. operations
- Outbound tax planning for U.S. companies expanding internationally
- Foreign subsidiary and branch structuring
- Global intangible low-taxed income planning
- Foreign tax credit utilization and optimization
- International restructuring and repatriation planning
- Tax treaty analysis for outbound operations
- Cross-border financing and withholding tax planning
- Transfer pricing coordination for multinational groups
- International reporting and disclosure support
- Global compliance strategy for multinational businesses
- U.S. tax reporting for foreign-owned companies and branch operations and assistance with obtaining US EINs for new entities
- US filing requirements for inpatriates and expatriates
- US residency certifications for claiming benefits under a tax treaty
- Disclosure requirements related to US ownership of foreign property or a foreign business, including Foreign Bank Account Reporting ("FBAR")
- Form 1120-F US income tax return for a foreign corporation
- Form 1040NR US nonresident alien income tax return
- Form 1118 foreign tax credit for corporations
- Forms 8992 and 8993 related to global intangible low taxed income
Information reporting on the ownership, operations, and distributions of foreign corporations, partnerships and other businesses, including the following:
- Form 5471 for US owned controlled foreign corporations
- Form 5472 for foreign owned US corporations
- Forms 8865 for US owned foreign partnerships
- Form 8858 for foreign disregarded entities
- Form 3520 annual return to report transactions with foreign trust
- US partnership withholding for foreign partners
- International Trust Reporting
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS AND NEWS
To support your international tax planning and compliance needs, we provide access to a comprehensive suite of valuable resources. Our extensive library includes whitepapers and articles on international tax topics, ensuring you stay informed about the latest developments and trends. Additionally, we offer tax calendars and deadlines, keeping you ahead of critical filing dates and obligations.
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