Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Tax, Employee Benefits and Private Client

Senior Tax Consultant - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Alan Appel is a professor of law and the director of the International Tax Program at New York Law School. He teaches courses in international tax planning and corporate taxation in addition to the tax transactions clinic. Professor Appel first started teaching at New York Law School in 2009 as an adjunct professor. As a senior tax consultant at Bryan Cave, he focuses in international and domestic tax planning involving taxation of mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies and tax controversy matters.

Professor Appel began his career as a trial attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., and New York City. On behalf of the American Bar Association Tax Section, he had primary responsibility for drafting and submitting comments to the U.S. Treasury Department and IRS concerning the scope of the guidance provided by the proposed regulations under Section 1446 of the Internal Revenue Code and also was asked by the Office of the Chief Counsel to train its attorneys on this issue. He also published two articles on the Section 1446 regulations in the Journal of International Taxation, a third article in the Tax Management Memorandum and a fourth article in the Tax Management International Journal.

Professor Appel has appeared on both radio and television discussing various income tax issues. He was also recently featured in "Taxpayers Strained by New FATCA Requirements" in AccountingToday.com, a leading provider of online business news for the tax and accounting community, concerning the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

Professor Appel received his J.D. from New York Law School in 1976 and his LL.M. from New York University in 1980. He received his B.B.A. from Baruch College in 1973.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS Sutton Place Synagogue/The Jewish Center for the United Nations - Board of Trustees and Patron PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Bar Association Section of Taxation – Council Director, Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers; U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties Journal of International Taxation – Board of Advisors Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions – Board of Advisors American Bar Association Section of Taxation – Chair, U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties   Committee New York State Bar Association – Section of Taxation The Association of the Bar of the City of New York The Florida Bar – Section of Taxation The District of Columbia Bar – Section of Taxation