Mark K. Neville, Jr.

Mark Neville is Counsel in the Corporate and International practices at Smith Gambrell & Russell.

He has over thirty years experience in the field of international trade and customs affairs. He has successfully advised numerous United States and foreign-based companies on strategic matters of planning, compliance and enhanced efficiencies.

Starting as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice representing the Customs Service and the Treasury Department, his career has taken him to a Wall Street law firm (Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander), Fortune 100 legal department and the international accounting firm KPMG, where he founded and ran the US trade and customs consulting practice for five years. He also counts a two year assignment in Brussels with responsibilities for Europe, Africa and the Middle East in his professional background.

Mr. Neville holds law degrees from the University of San Francisco and NYU (LL.M, International Legal Studies), and history degrees from Fordham University and UCLA. He is also a licensed customhouse broker. Mr. Neville has served as an adjunct faculty member of the Walter A. Haas School of Business of the University of Californiaand at NYU’s Stern School. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Journal of International Taxation, for whom he writes a monthly column on trade and customs issues, and is widely published in other journals and law reviews as well.

While a recognized expert in all areas of trade and customs, he reserves his own personal preferences for customs valuation and the interplay of customs and international tax issues and the administration of trade preference programs.

Mr. Neville is admitted to the New York Bar.

Publications

Monthly column, Customs & Trade, The Journal of International Tax, August 2006-present.

“First Sale for Export: The Second Time Around,” The Journal of International Taxation, August, 2005, 24.

“The Customs/IRS Intersection on Transfer Pricing,” The Journal of International Taxation, September 2001, 28 (co-author).

“Customs Issues for Imported Goods,” chapter 8 in Taxation of Foreign Controlled U.S. Businesses. Warren Gorham Lamont, 1995.

Seminars

Panelist, Customs Valuation and Transfer Pricing, World Customs Organization, Technical Committee on Valuation, Theme Meeting, Brussels, April 18-19, 2005.

Panelist, “Tax and Tariff Tug o’ War,” Global Transfer Pricing Forum, Berlin, September 2004.

Panelist, “The Tax-Efficient Supply Chain,” Council of Logistics Management Annual Conference, Toronto, October 1999.

Panelist, “Transfer Pricing: Business Perspectives on Customs/IRS Interplay,” AAEI, New York, September 22, 1997.

Lecturer, NYU Summer Institute in Taxation, July 22-26, 1996.

Panel Presentation, U.S. Court of International Trade, Fifth Annual Judicial Conference, “Disciplining the Agency, the Litigants, and the Court: Extraordinary Remedies,” November 18, 1988.

Lecture, “The Harmonized System: How Much Harmony, How Much System?” New York Office of Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO), September 30, 1988, translated and reprinted in Tsusho Koho (JETRO daily Trade Bulletin, December 20-21, 1988).