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Maria serves as national state and local tax counsel to many of the Fortune 100 and other industry-leading companies.
She helps them successfully navigate through multi-state state and local tax audits and litigation, complex tax reporting positions, and sophisticated business restructuring opportunities.
Maria currently serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and as a deputy practice group leader of the firm’s Tax practice.
She regularly represents clients in a variety of industries, including communications, energy, technology, financial, retail, manufacturing and hospitality, providing strategic advice and advocacy on matters across the United States in all areas of state and local taxation. Maria has extensive experience with industry-specific communications, energy and technology tax issues.
Maria stays active in the SALT community and frequently speaks on state and local tax topics in various forums, including the Broadband Tax Institute, the Wireless Tax Group, the State Tax Roundtable for Utilities and Power, Telestrategies, the Tax Executives Institute’s national and regional tax conferences, the Council on State Taxation’s national and regional state tax conferences, New York University’s Institute on State and Local Taxation, the Hartman SALT Forum. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law teaching state and local taxation.
Maria is conversant in Italian and Russian and fluent in Bulgarian.