Gardere Wynne Sewell has appointed Hiroaki Furuya as managing director in the firm's international tax and transfer pricing speciality practice group in Dallas, Texas.
Furuya has experience handling Japanese transfer pricing audits and competent authority cases, and negotiating advance pricing agreements. He has successfully concluded multiple Japanese APA and competent authority cases with the US, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Furuya was a founding member of the Tokyo transfer pricing practice at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and helped initiate the first bilateral APA between Japan and Germany.
