Justin Smith

Justin Smith is senior director of Advisory Services at HSP with responsibility for the Americas. Prior to joining HSP, Justin served in a variety of senior management level capacities with tax and economic consulting groups at Alvarez & Marsal, Duff & Phelps, and Arthur Andersen. Additionally, Justin co-founded and served as CEO of Altus Economics, a specialty international economic consulting boutique.

Justin has a wealth of international experience, spanning more than 13 years, assisting companies either expanding abroad or restructuring existing international operations. He has deep transfer pricing expertise, with heavy exposure to a variety of international tax, HR, and expatriate issues surrounding international operations. Justin has technical expertise in: intangible property licensing and migration, cost sharing arrangements, global tax minimization, intangible asset valuation, transfer pricing due diligence, tax authority controversy management, Advance Pricing Agreements, global transfer pricing planning and documentation, distributor and sales agent structures, supply chain restructuring, and merger and integration planning.

Justin has spent an extensive part of his career assisting a variety of high technology firms in the Silicon Valley to effectively manage intangible property on a global basis. Additionally, Justin has worked with firms across a wide range of industries, including: software, high technology components and equipment, electronic contract manufacturing, clean technology, telecommunications, automotive, entertainment, industrial equipment, consumer electronics, retail, apparel, financial trading, REITs, and agriculture.

Justin holds a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in economics and accounting from Claremont McKenna College. Justin is also a frequent speaker and lecturer on transfer pricing and valuation matters.