Christopher M. Klug is a Partner and Co-Founder of Basswood Counsel (formerly Klug Counsel PLLC). He is an international tax lawyer who represents businesses and clients with domestic and international taxation, tax controversy, corporate/business planning, cross-border transactions, international and domestic estate planning, and trust administration.

Basswood Counsel provides sophisticated tax planning and structuring for federal, state, and international taxation to corporations, partnerships, private equity funds, nonprofits, individuals, and family offices. The team at Basswood Counsel are diverse attorneys fluent in other languages such as Korean, Spanish and Malay.

Areas of Practice

• International Tax Planning and Controversy
• Domestic Tax Planning and Controversy
• Corporate/Business Planning
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Cross-Border Transactions
• International and Domestic Estate Planning
• Estate and Trust Administration
• Global Mobility

Publications

• Controlled Foreign Corporations and Subpart F Income
• Foreign Corporations and Form 5nce
• Foreign Disregarded Entities, Foreign Partnerships, and
  Check-the-Box Planning Opportunities
• Foreign Tax Credits
• The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
• Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR)
• The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion
• United States Tax Compliance and Tax Planning for US Executives or      Investors Residing Outside the US

Academic Appointments

• Adjunct Professor, M.S. in Accounting Program, Siena College, September 2011-December 2012 (Taught “Advanced Tax Accounting”)

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center                – LL.M. (in Taxation) – 2009
• Michigan State University College of Law     – J.D., with a Concentration in Corporate        Law – 2007
• Michigan State University – B.A., General      Business Administration – Prelaw – 2004

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• Maryland
• Michigan
• New York
• Washington, D.C.
• Virginia