Michael Quigley is a US lawyer and a tax partner at Kim & Chang in Seoul, Korea. For more than thirty years, he has concentrated on the resolution of tax disputes by negotiation, alternative dispute resolution and litigation.

Mr. Quigley has tried more than 50 civil tax cases before the US Tax Court, the US Court of Federal Claims and many US federal district courts. These cases include disputes over transfer pricing, civil fraud penalties, jeopardy assessments, debt/equity issues, valuations, tax deferred exchanges, exempt organization UBIT, excise taxes, partnerships and TEFRA procedural issues, life insurance company taxation, export incentives under the DISC/FSC regime, disallowed corporate deductions under 162(f), and many other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. His tax litigation experience is extensive, and he has been nationally ranked in the United States by Chambers & Partners, has been a master of the Inns of Court, and is frequently called upon to serve as lead tax litigation counsel.

Mr. Quigley is a leading authority on intercompany transfer pricing, tax treaties, permanent establishment issues and other tax matters affecting multinational corporations. He has advised clients on obtaining advance pricing agreements with the IRS and the tax authorities of many other jurisdictions including obtaining some of the first APAs between the United States and Korea. He has advised clients on mutual assistance  procedures before the US Competent Authority and the competent authorities of many other countries including Korea, India and Japan.

For many years Mr. Quigley has studied the economic, business and political affairs of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Peninsula, with a particular emphasis on US-Korea relations. He has a developed interest in Japan and its relations with the United States and Korea and with US-India relations and the political and economic affairs of India. More broadly, Mr. Quigley is keenly focused on US relations with Asia.