Michelle Ferreira is Executive Vice President, Co-Chair of the Global Tax Practice, and Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley office, practicing from the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. She advises individuals, partnerships, estates, and corporations in complex tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and state and local tax authorities, including the California Franchise Tax Board, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, the Employment Development Department, and county assessment appeals boards. Drawing on her prior experience as a tax litigator with the IRS, Michelle brings a distinctive and strategic perspective to sensitive and high-stakes tax and penalty matters, representing clients at every stage of a tax controversy—audits, collections, appeals, and litigation—before the IRS and state and local taxing authorities. She has 23 reported decisions in the U.S. Tax Court addressing a wide range of sophisticated tax issues, and is a member of the firm’s Tariff Task Force.