Alina Alexandra Risser

Senior Tax Associate - Washington National Tax Services @PwC

Chicago, IL, US

Specializing in the use of partnerships in complex domestic and cross-border transactions and investment structures, including tiered partnership and foreign holding company structures; assisting clients with joint venture matters throughout the entire business life cycle, including structuring domestic and foreign partnership acquisitions, dispositions, and tax-efficient restructurings.• Extensive consulting experience in the areas of partnership formation and operational issues, including disguised sales, equity-based compensation, substantial economic effect analysis, and section 704(c) methods, treatment of deemed partnerships, application of section 197, basis adjustments under sections 732, 734, and 743, and section 751 analysis.• Advising private equity firms and multinational companies on tax issues arising from domestic and international transactions; instructing clients with tax due diligence, tax efficient acquisitions and exits, reducing tax leakage, maximizing tax attributes, execution, and integration. • Analyzing proposed deals for unusual tax risks or undetermined tax benefits, interpreting complex legislative and regulatory actions relating to partnership and corporate transactions, assessing the tax consequences, assisting clients with regulatory and legislative initiatives.• Experienced in preparation of detailed tax opinions and memoranda, grounded in thorough research and analysis, in connection with IRS private letter ruling requests and tax controversy proceedings.

KU Leuven

LL.M. - European Master of Laws, E.M.P.A. - European Master of Comparative Public Administration

Kazan State University

Ph.D., Law - Kazan State University Law School, Master's in Jurisprudence (with Honors); Diploma Summa Cum Laude

University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

Juris Doctor (Certificate in Elder Law)

Roosevelt University

ABA - Approved Post Baccalaureate Paralegal Studies Program Certificate with Honors

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Taxation, Tax Law/Taxation

University of Vienna

Post-Graduate Program in European Union Law