Larissa Neumann focuses her practice on U.S. tax planning and tax controversy with an emphasis on international transactions. She has broad experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and has extensive transfer pricing experience.
Larissa has successfully represented clients in federal tax controversies at the audit level, and in appeals, the U.S. Tax Court and other federal courts. She was counsel in the important taxpayer victory case Analog Devices v. Commissioner (2016), and the successful resolution for Sanofi in Aventis v. United States in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. She is currently serving as counsel for VF Corporation/Timberland before the Tax Court in TBL Licensing v. Commissioner.
Larissa has a reputation as a leading tax advisor both in Silicon Valley and nationwide due to her keen analytical skills coupled with a focus on providing clients practical solutions to complex tax issues. She appears in Euromoney’s World’s Leading Tax Advisers and International Tax Review’s World’s Tax Controversy Leaders. Euromoney’s Women in Business Law named Larissa America’s BestTransfer Pricing Lawyer in 2017 and 2018, and she is consistently named as one of the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisors. She was also named to the Daily Journal’s 2017 list of Top Women Lawyers in California, and honored with the Women of Influence award by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2017.
Larissa teaches international tax at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She frequently speaks at conferences for professional tax groups, including TEI, IFA, Pacific Rim Tax Institute and the ABA. Larissa also co-authors a monthly column on all recent developments in U.S. international tax for the Tax Notes International. She is also on the executive committee of the International Fiscal Association, serves as the chair of the Technology Committee and is the ABA International Law Tax liaison.
Fenwick has advised over 100 Fortune 500 companies on tax matters and has served as counsel in more than 150 large-corporate IRS Appeals proceedings and more than 75 federal court tax cases. Fenwick is recognized by ITR as having one of the world’s top tax planning and transactional practices and is listed as a tier-one firm by World Tax. The firm is also consistently named San Francisco & Silicon Valley’s Tax Firm of the Year by ITR and has been named U.S. Tax Litigation Firm of the Year. ITR has also recognized Fenwick as Americas M&A Tax Firm of the Year and West Coast Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year.
Larissa received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2005. She received her M.A. in public health from Yale University in 2002. She received her B.S. in molecular cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
Larissa is a member of the State Bar of California and the ABA Section of Taxation.
