Gregory Bryant Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Founder and Managing Partner of Bryant International Law and Tax. At BILTgroup we now have the resources to meet the growing demand for a complete range of services for international businesses: - structuring, - implementing, - operating, - improving, - monetizing We also handle tax problems — FBAR, collections, and other.Representative projects• Designing and implementing the tax structuring for a construction and engineering company doing business in North Africa with a Dubai hub • Implementing a Bahamas / Dutch structure for an international training company• Structuring and implementing a Cayman / Irish structure for an international pharmaceutical company• Structuring the 5 continent operations for a global packaging company with offices in Asia, US, Europe, India and Africa• Structuring for a global retailer of high end golf apparel to expand into Asia, Europe and South Africa • Drafting legal documents to support transfer pricing for international operations of computer technology company• Structuring for raising foreign venture capital for US technology company• Structuring for a sale of Hong Kong and Chinese operations to Asian buyers

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Providing clients with strategies and best practices for global expansion.- IC DISC for inbound investments- Global Expansion Strategies- Reduction of tax risks- Improvement of deployment of working capital- Getting into and around China and South East Asia- Doing business in North and East Africa.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Providing mid-cap companies with international tax and business advice.- Structured treasury centers for management of global working capital in Luxembourg and UK- Implementing a Dubai based trading group- Designed and implemented foreign owned IC DISC structure- Developed platform for global business movement of goods from Asia to US and Europe- Negotiated and implemented global supply agreements on behalf of clients- Assisted clients in structuring global transfer pricing to reduce risk and improve cash-flow.- Assisted C-suite in adapting best practices in structuring global lines of business, including leveraging intangible property and reducing risks.

- Structured supply chain structures that optimize operating and non-operating costs and appropriately help manage working capital risk and funding - Structured and advised on US Subpart F implications of Treasury and Operational structures - Advised clients on structuring operations to comply with the Substantial Contribution requirements of Subpart F - Drafted many supplier, distributor, and logistics contracts for multinational contracts with customers in Europe and suppliers in Asia - Structured a multi-continental supply chain operation, including negotiating and drafting all supplier and 3PL contracts for a luxury packaging company - Negotiated global supply chain network for Korean manufacturer and drafted all legal documents for five continents - Designed and deployed tax efficient structuring for Group Finance and Holdings for multinational corporations - Designed, developed and implemented Global Reinvoicing Center structure to manage exchange control issues in China, South Africa and Russia- Structured and implemented global principal models based in Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong and Nevis that are tax compliant, extremely tax efficient, and based on strong operational drivers - Designed and deployed tax efficient structures for Global Supply Chain Management, including structuring, tax rulings and transfer pricing, coupling business solutions with tax planning and risk management - Structured and implemented Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Swiss based global structures for business expansion into Central and South America - Represented clients in tax controversy matters outside the USA, including winning a large tax case in the Federal Fiscal Court (highest fiscal court in Germany), reversing a $12m assessment - Defended client in a Tanzania transfer pricing dispute, reversing a $6 7m assessment

Operations consist of $2.5billion of revenue in 150 Controlled Foreign Corporations in over 50 countries. Vice President of Taxes and Shared Services- Responsible for all tax matters in 48 countries, including supervising global tax staff of 9 in US, Brazil, UK and Africa, overseeing all taxes (income, VAT, payroll and property) throughout worldwide organization.- Intimate knowledge of FAS109, FIN 48, FIN 118 and other tax accounting rules.- Significantly improved the tax provision process by deploying Lean Processing methodologies and automation.- Significant experience in tax, legal and business rules in Brazil, Argentina, the European Community and its constituent members; Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania.- Formation, integration and operation of Shared Service Centers in Europe.- Responsible for 26 employees (21 in UK, 3 in Switzerland, and 2 in Netherlands).-Change Management Leader for Global Finance and member of the Change Management Committee.

Director in Value Chain Transformation practice- Practice leader in national tax group focused on helping companies transform their business and tax alignment model to reduce operational costs and tax expense.- Designed and implemented global structure for Fortune 100 technology company to center IP and important business activities into Ireland. Annual savings forecast to be $200mm.- Worked with management of a diversified multinational manufacturer and service company to restructure their global business units to be more centralized around a European head-office. By harnessing IP and important business processes into Schaffhausen Switzerland, we achieved annual savings of $40-60mm.- Led transformation project for pharmaceutical company to improve their supply chain structure and move to a contract-manufacturing model. Annual savings were $100mm.- Led project for US manufacturer as it realigned its business from a product-based structure to a market based one. Annual savings were $20mm.- Brought business solutions to companies that were experiencing rapid growth.- Represented clients in IRS audits and appeals.

- Divisional Controller of Credit Card operation, supervising a staff of 20 accountants and operation of $80 million in annual revenue.- Developed sophisticated financial models to analyze business value drivers and key relationships. - Automated financial reporting systems to reduce the closing time by 13 days.

Llm, Taxation

Juris Doctor, Tax Law

B.S, Accounting

B.A, Political Science