Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard has over 34 years of experience with U.S. and international tax matters. His international practice areas include taxable and tax-free international mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings for U.S. and non-U.S. based corporations, partnerships and S corporations.

He serves family-owned closely held businesses and emerging companies as well as large publicly traded corporations.

Andrew focuses on a wide variety of international tax matters, including:

• Tax-effective cash repatriation
• Acquisition debt placement
• Foreign tax reduction
• Foreign tax credit maximization
• Withholding tax minimization
• Holding companies
• Treaty maximization
• U.S. and foreign tax rulings and opinions
• Representing clients before U.S. and non-U.S. tax authorities

Andrew has substantial experience in serving U.S. and non-U.S. clients in many industries, including manufacturing, technology, financial services, real estate, pharmaceutical, energy, professional services, private equity, and media and entertainment. He has spoken and taught on international tax matters at various tax and financial related seminars.

Before joining Andersen, Andrew was a partner in an international professional services firm. He also served as leader of that firm’s U.S. tax desk in Sydney, Australia for two years. Andrew is part of US National Tax, serving as a resource for international taxation.