Joan C. Arnold is a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the Philadelphia office, where she is the chair of the Tax Practice Group, and focuses her practice on federal and international income tax. Ms. Arnold has more than 30 years of significant experience in domestic and cross border M&A, and corporate tax counseling, including substantial tax experience in the private equity arena.
Ms. Arnold is a Regent of the American Counsel of Tax Counsel, and a director of the Council of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, where she oversees the international committees. She also is vice president and a member of the executive committee of the U.S. Branch of the International Fiscal Association.
In Philadelphia, Ms. Arnold is president of the Philadelphia Tax Conference and immediate past chair of the Tax Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. In Washington D.C., she is on the executive committee of the George Washington/IRS Annual International Tax Institute. Ms. Arnold is pleased to announce that after 23 years, she has retired from teaching in the Graduate Tax Program at Villanova University School of Law, where she regularly taught Taxable Acquisitions and Tax Free Mergers and Acquisitions, the International Tax Seminar and U.S. Taxation of Foreign Business Operations.
Ms. Arnold is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has been named the Philadelphia Best Lawyers Tax Lawyer of the Year for 2010. She is a frequent speaker at private equity tax conferences and PLI tax programs.
Before entering private practice, Ms. Arnold was vice president, associate general tax counsel for Citicorp, a full-time faculty member at Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, and a consultant in international tax to KPMG Peat Marwick in its national office.
