Baker McKenzie LLP

Tax; International Tax Counsel; Transfer Pricing

Partner; Co-chair, US International Tax Practice

Sibel Owji focuses her practice on corporate international tax, operational, legal and business advisory, planning and structuring, global transfer pricing strategy and documentation, international tax controversy, cross-border acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, cross-border post-acquisition integration planning and structuring, legal entity rationalization of global structures, tax treaty issues, repatriation planning, US taxation of foreign operations and related topics, including, worldwide tax minimization, IP planning and structuring, supply chain planning and structuring, planning regarding US anti-deferral regimes including Sub-part F and tax free reorganizations of US based multinationals.

Sibel has led and managed significant number of large and complex global legal, operational and tax structuring projects. She participated in design and detailed implementation phases of such projects as well as review and audit of such global structures from both legal and tax perspectives for clients in diverse industries and jurisdictions.

Sibel has a diverse and broad legal and professional experience practicing law for 28 years with a focus on international tax, business and legal advisory for nearly the last two decades.

In addition to her role at DLA Piper, Sibel acted as the Interim International Tax Director for one of her clients that is a large, US based multinational publicly traded technology company for nearly a year. She managed their global tax operations including the US, Latin America, EMEA and APAC regions.

Turkish

LL.M, University of Florida; LL.M., Taxation, University of Florida