Lauren Lovelace has nearly 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, serving foreign financial services companies with US operations, as well as domestic entities with offshore operations. She has extensive experience with inbound and outbound international banking tax issues, including cross-border planning to maximize income tax efficiency (e.g., in response to regulatory changes), financial product income sourcing and taxation, withholding tax and treaty matters related to permanent establishment matters and Article 7 profit attribution, interest deductibility analyses, FIRPTA considerations and reporting, and transfer pricing. She also assists clients with meeting their quarterly and annual US tax compliance obligations.

Lauren frequently instructs at internal and external training sessions covering topics in banking and capital markets and inbound/outbound international tax. She coauthored an article in 2006 concerning the implications of factoring transactions to US controlled foreign corporation look-through treatment.

She holds a Masters of Accounting degree from Kenan-Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and French from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is an Enrolled Agent with the Internal Revenue Service.