PLG is pleased to welcome Scott Brian Clark as senior counsel in its New York office. Scott joins the firm’s Taxation and Corporate Practice Groups.
For more than 30 years, Scott Clark has been at the forefront of the tax planning & state tax controversy arena. He has handled a vast number of diverse high-profile cases and issues and has significant tax experience representing both prominent entertainers and personalities, ultra-high net worth individuals, family offices, and well-known domestic and multi-national companies, particularly those based in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Scott has been integrally involved with cutting-edge tax issues impacting income and sales taxes, transfer taxes, global communications and digital taxes, and issues of personal residency and domicile, among others. He has served as a senior advisor to many of the world's most significant companies on issues of tax planning, controversy and settlements of cutting-edge tax disputes in most of the 50 states. Scott has been particularly well-known for his work early-on in the telecommunications, broadband and internet tax arena, the hotel and travel “intermediary” industry, and currently with respect to the taxation of digital products in the various states. He served as an initial drafter of the early white papers on the taxation of e-commerce, technology and communications, at which time he was involved in the formation and activities of the Congressional Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, as well as similar commissions and industry groups around the country since then.
Prior to joining private law practice, Scott was an equity partner and co-leader of PwC’s national multistate tax and legal services (TLS) Communications Industry practice, where he advised on tax planning and settlements of major tax disputes, and served as a senior tax advisor to many of the world's largest communications companies. Earlier, he served for many years as the Associate Tax Counsel for GTE (now Verizon) Corporation, where he acted as legal advisor and counsel with respect to tax audit, protest and litigation matters and also employee benefit matters. He was integrally involved in the implementation of GTE’s U.S. Supreme Court Goldberg decision, which set the national standard for state income/ franchise tax apportionment, and also served to guide the litigation of several other notable state court decisions, among them, the Kentucky Supreme Court’s GTE decision, and New York’s Southern Pacific & GTE Spacenet decisions.
Prior to joining PLG, Scott was a partner at Day Pitney and Dentons. He received his J.D. from Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, an L.L.M. from Quinnipiac University and his B.B.A. from The George Washington University.
