
Douglas S. Stransky
Lecturer
International Tax Partner, Sullivan & Worcester LLP
BA cum laude, Harvard University
JD cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
LLM in Taxation, University of Miami School of Law
Biography
Douglas S. Stransky is a tax partner and head of the International Tax Practice in the Boston office of Sullivan & Worcester LLP. Mr. Stransky concentrates his practice on international tax planning for multinational clients in the financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, private equity, technology, and venture capital industries, with a particular emphasis on US-based clients investing in foreign jurisdictions. He has advised a broad range of publicly traded and privately held multinational clients in structuring tax efficient international mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations and designing cross border financing strategies and foreign holding company structures. He also assists companies with foreign tax credit utilization, foreign treasury and cash flow management, recapitalization of foreign operations to enhance foreign earnings repatriation efficiency and reduce foreign tax burdens.
Mr. Stransky is a former co-chair of the International Tax Committee of the Boston Bar Association, a member of the Board of Advisors for Practical US/International Tax Strategies, a frequent speaker and author on numerous topics related to US international tax, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Legal500, and Chambers USA. Prior to joining Sullivan & Worcester, Mr. Stransky was the director of International Tax Services and a member of the National Outbound Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Mr. Stransky holds a BA cum laude from Harvard University and a JD cum laude and LLM (Taxation) from the University of Miami School of Law. He is admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the US Tax Court and the US District Court, District of Massachusetts.
- Profile Types
- Faculty, Graduate Tax LLM, Lecturers & Adjunct Professors, and Part-Time Faculty
- Areas of Interest
- Tax Law
Activities & Engagements
No upcoming activities or engagements.
Courses
INBOUND INTERNATIONAL TAX: LAW TX 953
This course will cover the U.S. tax rules applicable to taxation of income from U.S. (and sometimes foreign) sources received by corporations and individuals that are non-residents of the United States. In some cases, such income will be derived from passive investments and be in the form of dividends, interest, rents, or royalties. In other cases, the income will arise from active business activities. The course will address the concept of residence and entity classification, the U.S. source of income rules, the U.S. withholding tax rules (including the obligations of withholding agents) with respect to non-business income, the types of activities that can generate a "trade or business" (tax nexus) in the U.S., the U.S. rules for determining income effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business and thus taxable in the U.S., the branch profits tax, FIRPTA (foreign investment in U.S. real property) and the U.S. rules applicable to financing U.S. operations owned by non-U.S. taxpayers Finally, we will address the impact of tax treaties on the taxation of income of non-residents. This course will be of interest to students who will represent foreign resident taxpayers with economic operations in the United States. Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I; Recommended: Tax Aspects of International Business
SPRG 2025: LAW TX 953 A1 , Jan 13th to Apr 23rd 2025Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Douglas S. Stransky | LAW | 413 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | 12:00 am | 12:00 am | 2 | Douglas S. Stransky |