Mr Stephen Shay

Stephen E. Shay is a tax partner with Ropes & Gray in Boston, Massachusetts.  Stephen has extensive experience in the international tax area, advising clients that include large and medium-sized multinational companies, financial institutions, and global investors on issues such as foreign tax credits, deferral of U.S. taxation, foreign currency gains and losses, withholding taxes and financial product issues. 

Stephen regularly advises clients on transfer pricing issues and has successfully resolved numerous transfer pricing controversies with the IRS. 

Stephen also works with Ropes & Gray’s Private Client Group advising high net worth clients on cross-border income tax planning. 

Before joining Ropes & Gray in 1987, Stephen was the International Tax Counsel for the United States Department of the Treasury.