Parisa M. Griess focuses her practice on representing taxpayers in complex tax disputes against US and foreign tax authorities. Her diverse experience includes audit defense, administrative appeals, tax litigation, competent authority matters, and criminal tax investigations primarily for technology, media, and manufacturing companies, as well as high-net-worth individuals. She also frequently advises clients on audit risk and audit readiness. Parisa’s technical expertise includes transfer pricing, Subpart F, section 956, permanent establishments and other treaty matters, business deductions, executive compensation and employee benefits, withholding taxes, information reporting, summons enforcement, and penalties.
Beyond her tax practice, Parisa also has an active pro bono practice that has included representing individuals who have been unlawfully detained. She has also worked with the nonprofit Public International Law & Policy Group to provide pro bono legal and policy advice on drafting a post-conflict constitution for the Republic of Yemen and the creation and operation of a tribunal in Africa to prosecute piracy.
Parisa served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to law school, she worked at the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy, where she served as a financial economist and a Stanley S. Surrey Fellow.
