Danielle advises clients on U.S. international tax aspects of their structures, operations, and transactions. As part of the International Tax practice, Danielle works with the group to analyze rapidly evolving cross-border business practices and tax law changes to help clients implement tax-related business decisions to have a positive impact on their tax risk profiles, global effective tax rates, and cash tax postures.

Danielle served as an executive in the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy. She joined Treasury as deputy international tax counsel and then served as the international tax counsel. As international tax counsel, Danielle led Treasury’s international tax legal staff and was the principal legal adviser to the assistant secretary (Tax Policy) and the deputy assistant secretary (International Tax Affairs) on all aspects of international tax policy, including the development and review of proposals for U.S. tax reform, the promulgation of regulations and administrative guidance regarding the U.S. taxation of cross-border income, the negotiation of tax treaties, and representing the United States in international organizations such as the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development.

Danielle was a partner at Ivins, Phillips & Barker, where she advised multinational corporations on international tax planning, controversy, and compliance matters as well as on tax accounting methods. Danielle was a partner at Ivins, Phillips & Barker, where she advised multinational corporations on international tax planning, controversy, and compliance matters as well as on tax accounting methods.

In addition to numerous articles on section 199 and on a variety of international tax topics, Danielle is the author of An Analysis of FIN 48 – Accounting for Uncertain Tax Positions (Matthew Bender, 3d ed. 2009), which was intended to make the accounting for uncertain tax positions accessible to lawyers.