Faculty: LLM Taxation

Director

Dana Trier

Dana Trier

Lecturer
Interim Director, Taxation and Taxation of Cross-Border Investment LL.M. Programs

dlt57@miami.edu

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Dana Trier is the Interim Director for Miami Law's Graduate Program in Taxation and the Graduate Program in Taxation of Cross-Border Investments. He is a retired tax partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell, who currently serves as senior counsel in Davis Polk’s Tax Department in New York City. His practice...
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Faculty

Miami Law’s graduate tax faculty includes leading academics and practitioners who combine teaching with practical knowledge accumulated over years of experience at the most sophisticated levels of tax practice. They come to Miami Law to participate in the Tax program's "Tax Talks" to discusses the latest tax trends.

In addition, the faculty consists of full-time professors with substantial experience in private and public tax practice, and top local, national and international experts as adjunct professors.

John R Anzivino

John R Anzivino

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Taxation

jra63@miami.edu

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John Anzivino is a principal at Kaufman Rossin and leads the firm’s estate, trust, and exempt organizations practice. With more than 45 years of experience in the estate and trust field, he has advised a wide range of clients on complex estate and gift planning strategies. Prior to joining Kaufman Rossin, Mr. Anzivino worked as a trust...
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Luis Ernesto Arritola

Lecturer

l.arritola@miami.edu

(305) 284-5492
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Luis E. Arritola, MBA, JD, CPA, is the Internal Revenue Service’s Appeals Team Manager (Domestic Income Tax) for South Florida and Ohio. He is a member of the Florida Bar, American Bar Association, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Arritola's government service spans more than 40 years and has covered...
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Matthew Berman

Lecturer

mxb1924@miami.edu

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Matthew Berman is a Managing Director in Deloitte’s International Tax Services Group. He earned a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an LL.M in Taxation from New York University. Mr. Berman has worked in the international tax arena for over twenty years and advises businesses and individuals on the tax...
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William S Blatt

William S Blatt

Professor of Law

w.blatt@miami.edu

(305) 284-3644
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William S. Blatt, Professor of Law, earned an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1978, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982. He previously served as legislation counsel for the Joint Committee on Taxation, United States Congress. After law school, Professor Blatt was law clerk to Judge Antonin Scalia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...
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Jim Border

Lecturer

j.border@miami.edu

(954) 328-4347
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James Border has practiced tax since 1979 with a broad-based experience in state, federal, international and foreign taxes. For over 30 years, Mr. Border has represented companies in international transportation as the chief tax officer and senior tax counsel for Carnival Corporation & plc, and in private practice and through global trade...
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Christopher W Boyette

Lecturer

c.boyette@miami.edu

(305) 284-5567
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Mr. Boyett chairs Holland & Knight's Private Wealth Services Group in South Florida, advises wealthy families throughout Florida on sophisticated estate planning strategies and options, and counsels family businesses on succession planning and tax planning. Additionally, he advises both institutional and individual clients on estate and...
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Michael Bruno

Lecturer

mxb1804@miami.edu

(954) 683-4333
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Michael Bruno focuses his practice on domestic and international tax planning for multinational companies, funds, and entrepreneurial families. He has written numerous articles on international tax planning and frequently submits comments on regulatory promulgations. As a strong proponent for pro bono legal services, Bruno founded the...
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Sergio Garcia-Pages

Lecturer

s.garciapages@miami.edu

(305) 807-7319
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Sergio Garcia-Pages retired as Senior Counsel with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, LB&I, in Miami, Florida, on January 3, 2020. During his long tenure with IRS, he assisted revenue agents in the examination of complex transactions involving different types of taxpayers, including U.S. and foreign multi-nationals and high net worth...
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Jonathan Keith Hagan

Lecturer

jkh109@miami.edu

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Keith Hagan is a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery, where he provides practical tax and commercial advice to cross-border and domestic transactions involving development and infrastructure projects, public M&A, and private equity. Keith has experience with federal tax incentives including qualified opportunity funds (QOFs), energy...
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Shaina Kamen

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Taxation

sxk1842@miami.edu

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Ms. Kamen is a partner at Holland & Knight LLP. She advises clients on all aspects of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, and serves as general counsel to high-net-worth individuals and multigenerational families. Ms. Kamen is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and is admitted to...
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Karen Lapekas

Lecturer

kxl804@miami.edu

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Karen J. Lapekas is a principal at Lapekas Law, P.A. where she focuses on tax litigation and tax controversy. She litigates matters in the U.S. Tax Court and U.S. District Court (S.D. Fla.) and represents clients in audit, collection, and compliance matters before the IRS and Florida Department of Revenue, and NY State Dept. of...
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Scott Michel

Lecturer

mxs7792@miami.edu

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Scott Michel is the former President of Caplin & Drysdale and is internationally recognized for his extensive experience in handling matters arising from the U.S. government's recent crackdown on undeclared foreign accounts, including criminal tax investigations, sensitive civil audits and voluntary disclosures. His areas of expertise...
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Rahul Ranadive

Lecturer

rxr1003@miami.edu

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Rahul P. Ranadive is a Shareholder at Carlton Fields, with nearly 20 years of experience advising international high net-worth families on global estate and trust planning, private banking, and other personal tax matters. Rahul counsels nonresident individuals and foreign corporations seeking to invest and do business in the United States. He...
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Michelle Robles

Lecturer

mmr145@miami.edu

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Michelle M. Robles is an Associate Area Counsel for the Large Business & International Division at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel in Miami, Florida. She has worked for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel for over 10 years and specializes in federal tax litigation. During her time with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel Ms. Robles also worked as a...
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Jeffrey L Rubinger

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Taxation

j.rubinger@miami.edu

(305) 284-5567
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Jeffrey L. Rubinger practices in the area of domestic and international taxation. He has been involved in tax planning for cross border mergers and acquisitions, international restructurings and joint ventures, and in the use of financial products in cross-border settings. Mr. Rubinger has experience in a broad range of transactions involving...
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Joseph Schimmel

Lecturer

jxs2558@miami.edu

(305) 670-0201 x112
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Joseph Barry Schimmel is a shareholder in the law firm of Cohen, Chase, Hoffman & Schimmel, PA, in Miami, Florida, concentrating his practice in business and individual tax planning, and tax controversy. He is Florida Bar Board Certified in Taxation Law. Mr. Schimmel is past Chair of the Tax Section of The Florida Bar, and past Chair of the...
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Mark Scott

Mark Scott

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Taxation

mxs2282@miami.edu

(305) 857-6768
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Mark Scott is an estate and trust services principal at Kaufman Rossin. He focuses on creating and implementing intricate estate and gift planning strategies, leveraging the applicable exclusion, for clients in various industries. In addition to developing estate plans, Mr. Scott provides clients with trust tax planning as well as estate and...
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Nicole D Scott

Lecturer

n.scott@umiami.edu

(305) 284-5567
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Nichole D. Scott is a partner at Holland & Knight. Ms. Scott develops and implements various structures for the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next and works with families to ensure that their wealth is preserved for as long as possible. At Miami Law Ms. Scott teaches in the area of Federal Wealth Transfer Tax in...
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Stephen Shay

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Taxation

sxs3917@miami.edu

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Stephen Shay is the Paulus Endowment Senior Tax Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School. He has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs in the United States Department of the Treasury and is a retired partner of Ropes & Gray LLP where he practiced as a tax partner for over two decades. He has been...
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Andrew P Solomon

Lecturer

aps236@miami.edu

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Andrew Solomon, now of counsel and recently retired, was for many years a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Tax Group. He has had a broad-based practice, involving both tax planning and dispute resolution. Mr. Solomon served as managing partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Tax Group for 17 years, coordinating the...
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Dana Trier

Dana Trier

Lecturer
Interim Director, Taxation and Taxation of Cross-Border Investment LL.M. Programs

dlt57@miami.edu

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Dana Trier is the Interim Director for Miami Law's Graduate Program in Taxation and the Graduate Program in Taxation of Cross-Border Investments. He is a retired tax partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell, who currently serves as senior counsel in Davis Polk’s Tax Department in New York City. His practice...
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Patricia D White

Patricia D White

Professor of Law
Dean Emerita; Co-Director, Sports Law Track - Graduate Program in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M.

pwhite@miami.edu

(305) 284-2394
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Patricia D. White is a Professor of Law and was the University of Miami School of Law's eleventh dean from 2009-2019. Her legal career spans over four decades as an attorney and educator.  She was the first woman law school dean in Arizona and the longest serving one in the history of Arizona State University’s...
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Christian Wimpissinger


wimpissinger@law.miami.edu

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Christian Wimpissinger is a partner with the international firm of Binder Grösswang and prior to working at Binder he practiced for prestigious firms including Shearman & Sterling, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and KPMG. He specializes in the areas of cross-border restructuring of a multinational group, public offers of various capital...
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Jennifer J Wioncek

Lecturer

j.wioneck@miami.edu

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Jennifer Wioncek is a Partner in the Tax & Estate Planning Group at Bilzen Sumberg. She is recognized in domestic and international trust and estate planning for high net worth international private clients and their families. She holds a STEP TEP designation and is an esteemed ACTEC...
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