J.D., Brooklyn Law School; LL.M. in Taxation, New York University, School of Law. Admitted to New York State Bar and member of the Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers Committee of the New York State Bar Association.

Mr. Kaufman is a Tax Attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience in domestic and international strategic tax planning. His expertise includes minimizing the global tax cost of doing business and converting the tax function of multinational companies from a passive compliance role into a proactive profit center. He is well known in the international tax community and is the founder of a global tax practice.

Being a Senior Tax Counsel to several multinational corporations headquartered in the U.S., Mr. Kaufman has earned a reputation for consistently achieving substantial cash flow and profit and loss savings by designing and implementing innovative tax planning strategies. He has been Senior Tax Counsel and Director, Tax Counsel, respectively, for two of the world's most widely recognized media and entertainment corporations. His collaborative relationships with senior business and finance executives as well as his extensive global network of tax practitioners allowed him to create efficiencies and cost savings with respect to corporate acquisitions and in the development of a tax structure for coverage of three overseas Winter Olympic Games. Furthermore, Mr. Kaufman improved U.S. foreign tax credit efficiency by millions each year by partnering with management to increase low-taxed foreign source income to absorb excess foreign tax credits. He structured overseas start-up operations maximizing opportunities for deferral of U.S. tax on foreign earnings. He also secured favorable tax rulings from local Ministries of Finance avoiding permanent establishment taxation status in connection with the three Winter Olympic Games, saving millions of dollars in local income tax. In another achievement, he restructured the licensing and inter-company pricing for Brazilian operations maximizing cash repatriation and achieving millions in annual tax savings. One of his most recent projects was the development of a tax-efficient structure for a major global manufacturing corporation with operations in 89 countries.

An accomplished industry spokesperson, Mr. Kaufman has lectured at the American Corporate Counsel Association, Foreign Trade Commissioners Association of New York, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Institute for International Film Financing, New York State Bar Association - International Law and Practice Section, New York State Society of CPA's, New York Women in Television and Film and the Association of Bar of the City of New York - Entertainment Law Committee.