Sean Foley

Principal, Global Transfer Pricing Services

KPMG in the U.S.

Sean has more than twenty years of experience working with major organizations and multinational corporations to analyze their intercompany transactions and develop practical transfer pricing strategies. Sean’s primary areas of focus include Advance Pricing Agreements, Competent Authority matters and transfer pricing risk management. Prior to joining KPMG, Sean was the Director of the IRS Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) Program, an alternative dispute resolution procedure for international transfer pricing issues. In this role, Sean regularly met with foreign competent authorities to discuss APA related issues and was the principle reviewer of all of the APA’s and the US’s negotiating positions. Sean clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she served on the US Court of Appeals; and served as legislative director to Congressman Sander Levin, currently the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee. He has an LL.M. in Taxation (with distinction) and a J.D. (summa cum laude) from the Georgetown University Law Center. Sean has served as an adjunct law professor in the LL.M. programs at Georgetown and the University of Florida. He is the past chair of the American Bar Association Transfer Pricing Committee.

  • Business tax reform
  • International Markets
  • Middle Market
  • National Markets
  • Operating Effectiveness
  • Public Policy and Regulatory Change
  • Risk Management
  • Tax planning
  • Tax regulation and compliance policies
  • Tax strategies
  • BS, Chemistry & Economics, University of Michigan

  • LLM, Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center (with distinction)

  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center (summa cum laude)

  • Member, District of Columbia and Maryland Bars

  • Member, American Bar Association