Jared Walls

Jared is a founding partner of the Valentiam Group, Co-Leader of the WTS Global Transfer Pricing Services practice, and a member of the WTS Global Board of Directors. He has practiced transfer pricing in the United States and Europe since 2003. Prior his current roles, he worked in the transfer pricing practice of a Big 4 firm in Madrid where he led the knowledge management and economic analysis and technical research and development divisions of the firm’s Spanish transfer pricing practice.  Jared has advised multinational enterprises on a wide range of transfer pricing and valuation issues, including the following:

•U.S. Tax Reform modeling and planning;

•Transfer pricing for the digitalized economy;

•Transfer pricing planning with an emphasis on tax-efficient supply chain management;

•Local country and OECD compliance (Master File, Local File, and Country-by-Country reporting);

•Operational transfer pricing, including integration of ERP systems with Microsoft Excel and VBA;

•Qualified cost-sharing arrangements (CSAs);

•Intangible property (IP) valuations;

•Advance pricing agreements (APAs) and mutual agreement procedures (MAPs);

•Audit defense, appeals, litigation support;

•Litigation support;

•FIN 48 / ASC 740 compliance;

•Tax valuations; and

•Other valuation matters (e.g., purchase price allocations, employee stock purchase plans, etc.).

Other

•Frequent author and speaker on transfer pricing and valuation matters

•University of Texas, Austin, Guest Professor, Digital Tax and Transfer Pricing (Spring 2021)

Individual Accolades

•"Expert Guide" to World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers, (ITR, World TP) (2017-Present)

•"Transfer Pricing Advisory Expert of the Year in California – 2021“ (Corporate Intl Magazine Global Awards)

•"Transfer Pricing Advisory Expert of the Year in California – 2020“ (Global Advisory Experts Annual Awards)

•“2019's Leading Transfer Pricing Consultant – California,” (AI Global, Corporate Excellence Awards)

•“Leading Specialist in Transfer Pricing 2018 – USA,” (AI Global, Leadership Elite Awards)