KPMG US appoints three managing directors in tax practice

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KPMG US appoints three managing directors in tax practice

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Thomas Chamberlin, Gibi Lappin, and Philip Petrillo have joined KPMG.

Chamberlin has joined KPMG as a managing director in its international tax practice. Chamberlin, who left Deloitte to work at KPMG, will focus on helping multinational clients assess and respond to US tax reform and global tax reform developments around the world.

Lappin has rejoined KPMG as a managing director at its international tax practice after working at AECOM as director of international tax for almost four years.

Petrillo has also rejoined KPMG as a tax managing director in the New York financial services asset management practice. He rejoined KPMG from EY. Prior to that he was a director at Credit Suisse Alternative Investments. 

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