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Professor Dr. Erik Burgos, licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Washington, District of Columbia, and concurrently licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New York and Virginia, is the firm’s Chief Legal, Financial, Accounting and Tax Officer, and Global General Counsel. He has oversight over all firm’s client delivery teams legal advise, corporate legal matters, and of outside counsels litigation oversight. In addition, he oversees the firm’s Deputy General Counsels in North America, EMEA and LATAM,

In addition Erik has more than 25 years of experience with complex and M&A transaction tax planning, structuring, due diligence, and post-acquisition state and local tax planning to enhance the tax effectiveness of acquired businesses.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prior to joining RKA, and to understand the breath of his significant client services experience, Erik served as outside global tax counsel and provided tax guidance, business formation and structuring services for a massive global aerospace and defense company/US goverment contractor, with $52.6 billion in annual revenues, approximately 117,000 employees, and a market cap of over $100 billion. He was responsible for managing the company-wide global related programs and performed as state tax attorney.

To compliment his senior leadership consulting and corporate executive legal careers, Erik was a Partner at a regional accounting firm in Virginia, and also practice Leader in a Big four’s accounting firm M&A tax teams, and was responsible for overseeing the state and local mergers and acquisition practices in the mid-Atlantic and southeast regions of the United States. In these roles, Erik focused on the state and local tax aspects of mergers and acquisition deals which included but not limited to: transaction tax planning, structuring, due diligence, and post-acquisition state and local tax planning. Erik has worked on thousands of M&A transactions throughout his career.

Erik has a Juris Doctor/Doctor of Law from Hofstra Law Center, and a Master of Tax Law from Georgetown Law Center. Additionally, Erik is a Special Professor of Law at Hofstra Law Center and teaches state and local tax.