Steven Cantor and Daniel Levy

Nassau, Bahamas – From the perspective of both individuals and financial institutions, it is important to understand how U.S. cross-border tax enforcement impacts wealth planning.  To date, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service have largely focused their efforts on Switzerland.  That has begun to change.  U.S. lawyers Daniel W. Levy of McKool Smith and Steven L. Cantor of Cantor & Webb will be featured speakers at BFSB’s upcoming International Business & Finance Summit, discussing what new law enforcement efforts may be on the horizon and how individuals and financial institutions can plan for the coming wave of investigations.

Daniel Levy is a principal in McKool Smith's New York office. Prior to joining the firm, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York for more than a decade. He has conducted more than a dozen jury trials and argued more than fifteen appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, including several cases of first impression. He has led numerous significant investigations, often ones with an international component, and served as counsel for prosecutions involving all types of fraud offenses, including money laundering, securities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, theft of trade secrets, identity theft, tax fraud, FCPA violations, and computer crimes.  He was named "Prosecutor of the Year" by the Federal Enforcement Foundation in 2011 and 2013. 

Steven Cantor has been recognized as one of the world’s leading international private client attorneys by Chambers Global and Chambers USA, as one of the Top 50 Foreign Lawyers for Latin America by the Latin Business Chronicle and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal.   He heads Cantor & Webb, a Miami, Florida based law firm focused on the representation of high net worth international private clientele and international businesses in the areas of tax planning and compliance, estate planning, international and domestic real estate and probate matters, general commercial and international financial matters.

IBFS is now in its 12th year, and remains a key feature on BFSB’s annual Calendar of Events. It brings together financial services industry stakeholders from across the spectrum of the sector as well as specially targetted international intermediaries.  This year the Summit is being held in Grand Bahama at the Grand Lucayan Beach & Golf Resort, February 6th and 7th.