Loren Ponds is a partner in the tax division of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, DC. She represents clients before the IRS in connection with Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs), Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) claims to resolve instances of double taxation, and transfer pricing and foreign derived intangible income (FDII) audits. She also counsels on various transfer pricing issues related to intangible property and post-merger integration. Ponds was previously practice co-lead in the tax policy division at Miller & Chevalier and also served as majority tax counsel to the US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, where she developed, analyzed, and refined the international tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Fluent in French and German, Ponds worked abroad as Ernst & Young’s Global Transfer Pricing Operations Manager in Duesseldorf, Germany. She was also a German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the International Tax Institute at the Universitaet Hamburg in Germany, as well as a Trainee at the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in Paris, France.
