Israel Tarshish

About Israel Tarshish

Israel is a Principal in KPMG’s Mergers & Acquisitions Tax practice. His practice focuses in the area of transactional tax planning, including tax due diligence, structuring and modeling advice provided in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures of corporations, as well as restructurings in and out of bankruptcy.Prior to joining KPMG’s Mergers & Acquisitions Tax practice, Israel worked for a large accounting and tax advisory firm, as well as the tax and legal departments of global financial firms, where he worked on tax consulting, compliance, and provision engagements for a range of clients including private equity funds, hedge funds, master limited partnerships, large publicly traded corporations, and closely held businesses. Israel has authored articles featured in publications including the Journal of Taxation of Financial Products, Tax Notes International, and the Houston and Dallas Business Journals. Israel is also a regular instructor at KPMG’s national M&A Tax trainings.

Experience

1. Principal, Mergers and Acquisitions Tax

   KPMG US

   Jan 2011 — Present

   Manage hundreds of domestic, outbound, and inbound transaction engagements for US and foreign private equity, infrastructure, and multi-national corporate clients. Including planning, structuring, and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, debt issuances, bankruptcies.• Oversee the preparation of structuring documents, memoranda, tax opinions, and computational models illustrating the tax implications of alternative structures.• Oversee computational tax projects including loss carryforward limitation analyses, earnings and profits studies, attribute reduction analyses, transaction cost analyses, and financial model reviews. • Oversee tax due diligence projects related to U.S. and foreign, state and local income, employment, sales and use, and value added taxes.• Review transactions and their tax implications as part of financial statement audits of publicly traded and privately held companies.• Participate in national M&A Tax practice committees focused on knowledge sharing, technical training, and technology utilization.• Design and instruct annual national trainings for M&A Tax practice at all levels.• Co-lead local practice recruiting.