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Practice Areas: Corporate, international and insurance taxation; tax planning in connection with corporate organizations, sales and acquisitions; tax controversy work; advocacy of public policy issues; tax legislative and regulatory matters for property-casualty, life and reinsurance firms; federal insurance legislation. Education: Brenda Viehe-Naess is a graduate of Wellesley College and Vanderbilt University Law School; awarded US Law Week prize for scholastic achievement in her third year. Admissions to Practice: Ms. Viehe-Naess is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and New York. Experience: Partner, Hopkins & Sutter and other national law firms in Washington, D.C. She served as Deputy Commissioner (Chief Counsel) of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, where she supervised the Law Department and Consumer Protection Division. As Tax Counsel of the American Insurance Association, she represented major insurance companies on all regulatory and legislative issues before the IRS National Office, Treasury and the Congress. Other Activities: Federal Bar Association Insurance Tax Seminar (Advisory Council); Organization on Multi-National Insurance Taxation (Steering Committee); Private Sector Co-Chair of the Tax Coalition, an organization of tax professionals working on public policy issues (2006). Memberships: District of Columbia Bar Association, Tax Section. Publications Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV Ms. Viehe-Naess serves as "Of Counsel" to the Firm.
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