Cornelia J. Schnyder

Cornelia Schnyder is a Managing Director in US National Tax for Andersen. Cornelia has over 17 years of experience in partnership and S corporation taxation. She has advised partnerships, S corporations, and limited liability companies on a broad variety of tax matters.

Before joining Andersen, Cornelia held several positions with the federal government. Most recently, she was a Special Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel (Passthroughs and Special Industries) at Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Office of Chief Counsel. In that role, she had responsibility for regulations and other administrative guidance ranging from partnerships, S corporations, trusts, energy credits, and excise tax issues as well as assisted the IRS and the Department of Justice in litigation matters. She was also an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), where she worked on tax reform issues and various partnership and S corporation projects, including regulations for the net investment income tax.

Prior to joining the IRS and Treasury, she was counsel with McKee Nelson LLP, advising large companies in transactions involving partnership, corporate, consolidated, and foreign tax issues. She also assisted in tax controversy matters. She began her career as an Attorney-Advisor to Judge Wright of the United States Tax Court.

Cornelia has been a guest panelist for the Federal Bar Association and the American Bar Association.