Biography
Laura Williams is a partner in the Washington National Tax Office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Laura is based in Washington, DC and her practice focuses on international tax, particularly cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings, attribute planning, and provisions of 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Laura also provides support to PwC’s controversy practice, advising clients and providing thought leadership regarding IRS practices and procedures.
Before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Laura was a managing attorney in the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service. Laura was Chief of Branch 4 of the International Tax Division, which has jurisdiction over cross-border transactions, including application of the international tax rules to subchapter C and subchapter K, and related issues. Laura had oversight of published guidance, IRS litigation, and certain tax administration such as the issuance of private letter rulings to taxpayers. She served in that role from 2019 to 2023.
Prior to joining the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Laura was in Ernst and Young LLP’s International Tax and Transaction Tax Services group located in Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA from 2011 to 2019. She also worked in their assurance practice from 2005 to 2008 prior to attending law school.
Laura received her Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University in Atlanta and her Master of Accountancy and Bachelor of Science, accounting major, from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She obtained her CPA license in Georgia in 2011 and is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia.