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Paul A. Sczudlo
Partner

Paul Sczudlo has been an active tax practitioner with Loeb & Loeb for over 27 years. Mr. Sczudlo is widely recognized for his practice in cross-border and entertainment planning. He is the immediate Past Chair of the American Bar Association's International Private Client Committee. Mr. Sczudlo's principal clients include high net worth individuals; foreign investors in U.S. real estate and other U.S.-situated assets; Americans with offshore investments, acquisitions and business activities; film production and distribution companies; actors, musicians, writers, producers, directors and agents; public and closely held businesses; and financial institutions.

Mr. Sczudlo’s practice emphasizes entertainment taxation; international estate and gift tax planning; international estate administration; international wealth transfer planning; other international planning for high net worth individuals; inbound planning for businesses seeking to set up, acquire or dispose of manufacturing, distribution or other operations in the United States; outbound planning for U.S. businesses establishing or acquiring foreign operations; and international tax withholding, reporting, compliance and controversy issues.

Mr. Sczudlo's practice includes U.S. real estate transactions involving foreign parties; international film production and distribution; United States and California withholding tax issues with respect to non-U.S. individuals, corporations and other foreign entities; planning for executives and other foreign individuals moving to or from the United States; income and estate tax planning for U.S. citizens moving abroad, with or without terminating their U.S. citizenship; and the organization of foreign corporations, limited liability companies and foreign trusts.

Mr. Sczudlo writes and lectures regularly on international and other tax topics of interest to business and high net worth individuals. A sampling of his more recent engagements and publications follows.

Publications/Speeches

  • Author, “Crossing Borders: Light and Truth – A Primer on International Taxation and Compliance for Individuals”, 2008 Tax Institute, USC Law School, 60 Major Tax Planning (2008)
  • Author, “Expatriation: Time to Go?” STEP USA (October 2008)
  • Speaker, American Bar Association ("ABA"), Section of Taxation, 2008 Joint Fall CLE Meeting, “Tax Planning for International Entertainers and Athletes”, San Francisco (September 2008)
  • Speaker, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners ("STEP") Canada 10th National Conference, “Leaving the U.S.”, Toronto (June 2008)
  • Speaker, State Bar of California, Trust & Estates Section, Sophisticated Tax Planning and Trust Administration Conference, “Crossing Borders: Advising the International Private Client”, San Francisco (April 2008)
  • Speaker, The STEP Pacific Rim Conference, “Tax Planning for International Entertainers and Athletes”, San Francisco (March 2008)
  • Speaker, International Bar Association (“IBA”), 13th Annual International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference, "Alternatives to the International Will", London (March 2008)
  • Speaker, 36th Annual Conference of the USA Branch of International Fiscal Association ("IFA"), “Global Tax Planning for World Class Entertainers and Athletes” (February 2008)

Media Mentions


Affiliations

  • Vice-Chair and Co-Founding Member, Southern California Chapter of STEP
  • International Law Section Liaison to the ABA Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section
  • Immediate Past Chair, ABA, International Private Client Committee; Member, International Law and Taxation Sections, ABA
  • Past Chair and current Member, Taxation Section; Past Chair, Foreign Tax Committee, Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • Member, Taxation Section; Past Chair, International Tax Committee, State Bar of California
  • Chair, Los Angeles International Tax Club
  • Member, Los Angeles International Tax Forum
  • Member, Los Angeles Motion Picture and Television Tax Institute
  • Member, IBA and USA Chapter of IFA
  • Past Director, Yale Club of Southern California

Distinctions

  • Named in The Legal 500 US in Tax, published by Legalease Limited and John Pritchard (2008 edition) (“[Mr. Sczudlo] ranks at the top of the shortlist for international tax issues as they affect the entertainment industry.”)
  • Named "Best Lawyer" in Tax Law, The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward White, Inc. (2006-2009)
  • Named in "Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business," in Tax, (2004-2008 editions)
  • Named "Southern California Super Lawyer" in Tax and Estate Planning & Probate by Law & Politics in Los Angeles magazine (2004-2008)
  • Named Top International Lawyer, California Law Business 
  • Named Preeminent California Tax Lawyer, California Law Business
  • Highest "AV" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
  • Born: Fairbanks, Alaska

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Education
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1980
Harvard Law School, 1979
Yale University, B.A., 1977, cum laude
Bar Admissions
California, 1980
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