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DAVID SPENCER
Tax Justice Network, New York, USA
David
Spencer is an attorney with substantial experience in
international banking and finance law,
specializing in international legal transactions
representing major financial institutions.
Author of fifty-four professional articles on different
issues of international finance and international taxation,
in Journal of International Taxation (New York)
and International Financial Law Review (London).
Professional
Experience
- 1979
to present:
Law Offices of David Spencer,
doing legal work primarily for many banks and other
financial institutions,
and companies with international operations.
- 1974
to 1979:
Corporate Tax Department of Citicorp-Citibank,
New York. Did
research and planning for U.S. and foreign corporate
banking and tax problems:
Merchant Banking Group (financial consulting,
cash management,
venture capital,
project finance,
syndication); World
Corporation Group (the relationships with the major
multinational corporations,
including mining,
petroleum and shipping companies); Corporate
Counseling Department (foreign currency transactions,
and foreign currency exposure and liquidity
management); and
International Services Department (foreign investment in
the United States, including
investments by foreign governments).
- Summer
1973:
practiced law (in French) at the French law firm,
Bureau Francis Lefebvre,
Paris.
- 1969
to 1972:
practiced law with Fried,
Frank Harris and Shriver,
New York
, primarily
internationally oriented finance,
tax and corporate law.
Spent one year at Fried,
Frank working on the Falconbridge mining project in
the Dominican Republic
, representing
the Dominican Central Bank.
- Summer
1968, Summer
1970 and Summer 1972:
worked in
Rio de Janeiro
,
Brazil
as research assistant on the Inter-American Juridical
Commission of the Organization of American States,
which studies public and private international law
issues.
- Summer
1967:
Worked in
Sao Paulo
,
Brazil
for Citibank in its Planning Department.
- Summer
1966:
practiced law at Estudio Arturo Alessandri,
a law firm in
Santiago
,
Chile
.
- 1963
to 1965:
Latin American Advisor to the
United States
National Student Association (USNSA).
Liased with youth and student political groups in
Latin America, and
traveled frequently to
Latin America
to represent USNSA at youth and student political
meetings.
Member
,
U.S.
delegations to the 11th International Student
Conference in
New Zealand
and the 1965 World Assembly of Youth.
Also, Editor/Author:
Student Politics in
Latin America
, 1965,
287 pp. This
book was used as course book on Latin American politics at
many
U.S.
colleges and universities.
Education
·
New York
University
Law
School
, Masters
of Law Degree in Taxation (LL.M.) (1973)
·
Harvard
Law
School
, J.D.
Degree (1968)
·
Harvard
College
, B.A.
Degree (1963)
·
Hotchkiss
School
(1959)
Member:
Member of Editorial Advisory Board of International
Financial Law Review (a Euromoney publication);
member of Board of Advisers of Journal of
International Taxation; Brazilian-American
Chamber of Commerce, Director and Chairman of Business Affairs
Committee, responsible
for the Chamber’s educational seminar program
(1988-2003); Council of the Americas-Americas Society;
North American-Chilean Chamber of Commerce (New York),
President and Director (1999 to 2007); consultant to
the United Nations on international tax matters at the UN
Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax
Matters (November 2003 and November 2005);
participant in UN Meetings of Experts on Tax Aspects of
Domestic Resource Mobilization (Rome,
September 2007) and Transfer Pricing (Amsterdam, August
2008); Senior Advisor, Tax Justice Network.; member of the
Task Force on Cross Border Illicit Financial Flows organized
by the Government of Norway and the Leading Group of Countries
(2007-2008).
Languages:
English, Portuguese and Spanish, and French
(reasonable)
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For registration
information please contact:
Ms. Lorna
Payne,
University of the West Indies, Faculty of Law, Cave Hill
Campus, Cave Hill, St. Michael Barbados, W.I.
Tel:
(246) 417 4220
Fax: (246) 424-1788 Email:
lorna.payne@cavehill.uwi.edu
©
2008. Caribbean Commercial Law Workshop. Produced by the
Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies.
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