Gene Tien
Gene Tien is a vice president in the Transfer Pricing Practice, working with global multinationals on intercompany pricing and economic valuation issues that impact their most relevant tax positions.
Gene Tien provides practical, commercial advice to multinationals to address their intercompany pricing needs. This includes the design and implementation of global pricing strategies as they relate to IP or value-creating activities, risk assessment from a holistic TP and tax perspective, and global audit defense and dispute resolution at a parent company and subsidiary level.
Gene assists in the design of intercompany transaction flows, specializing in valuing intangible property transactions, the direct and indirect tax implications, assists companies in documenting and managing with the evolving TP and tax landscape, and regularly consults on dispute resolution and controversy matters globally.
He serves global clients in diverse industries with a high degree of TP audit exposure, including digital offerings, scientific instrumentation, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, retail, oilfield / natural resource services and management, branded consumer product goods, and the entertainment sector.
He regularly presents and writes about international TP policy, and on broader fiscal policy issues relating to economic development. For his Ph.D., he specialized in Industrial Organization with a dissertation on technology transfer and the structure of licensing contracts. His other areas of specialty included Economic History, International Economics, and Labor and Econometrics.