Stephen M. Brecher, CPA, CIRA, JD, LLM, MBA

Partner-in-Charge, Tax Practice

Experience

Mr. Brecher has more than 35 years of experience in providing professional tax and consulting services to international banks and global businesses.  He has extensive international tax experience with a great deal of concentration in financial services and capital markets.  Previously, as head of KPMG’s International Bank Practice, Mr. Brecher had oversight of a very broad range of consulting engagements, including risk management, enterprise structure, and controls.  He chaired that firm’s Global Banking and Finance Tax Group and served as a member of its Global Banking & Finance Steering Committee.

Mr. Brecher testified numerous times at hearings of the Internal Revenue Service on proposed tax regulations and provided comments to the OECD on issues of cross-border taxation.  He also has experience in the restructuring industry.  A frequent lecturer on tax topics, both in the U.S. and abroad, Mr. Brecher has also written on a broad variety of tax subjects and has served as a contributing editor on financial services and capital market issues for several publications.

One of Mr. Brecher’s major accomplishments includes being selected as the representative of the accounting profession to serve on a Blue Ribbon Commission chaired by the New York Superintendent of Banks to review the regulation of foreign-owned financial institutions in New York State, following the collapse of BCCI.

License

Certified Public Accountant, New York

Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)

Admitted to New York Bar

 

Education

BA in Government with a minor in Economics/Foreign Languages, St. Lawrence

  University

LLM in Taxation, New York University School of Law

MBA in Accounting, Stern Graduate School of Business, New York University

JD, New York University School of Law

Advanced management training for KPMG partners – Stanford, Insead Burgenstock

  (Kellogg)

Affiliations

American Bar Association

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Committee Chair – Tax Standing Sub-

  Committee

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants

American Bankruptcy Institute

Turnaround Management Association

Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors

Selected Publications and Speeches

“Retention of Crisis Managers,” Bankruptcy Committee of the Association of the

  Bar of the City of New York – Contributing Editor

Stanford Law Journal

Frequent Lecturer in U.S. and abroad

Contributor to numerous papers on financial services and capital markets subjects

 

Languages

English

French