Dmitrii Gabrielov
Biography
Dmitrii Gabrielov is a member of the Tax Group in the Los Angeles office, focusing on state and local tax matters, including income, franchise, and sales and use taxes. Dmitrii represents clients in all aspects of state tax controversy, from audit defense through litigation, and advises on multistate tax planning and structuring. Dmitrii’s practice spans a wide range of industries, including technology, financial services, insurance, consumer products, healthcare, and media and entertainment.
Practice Focus
Dmitrii has significant experience handling high-value controversy matters in New York, California, and other jurisdictions. Dmitrii also advises clients on the state income tax implications of multistate service transactions, sales and licenses of intangibles, cross-border transactions, intercompany transactions, and other tax base and apportionment matters. He also counsels clients on numerous sales tax issues, including the taxation of cloud computing, digital goods, online marketplaces, and online services.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represents clients in high-stakes tax base and apportionment-related controversies in California and New York.
- Eliminated multimillion-dollar assessment related to California Franchise Tax sourcing issues.
- Successfully represented clients in income tax credit and other tax incentive matters in multiple jurisdictions.
- Eliminated multimillion-dollar sales tax increases in audits and appeals involving digital economy and financial services companies.
- Obtained millions of dollars in sales tax refunds for clients across numerous jurisdictions.
- Regularly represents and advises digital economy companies on state tax issues nationwide.
- Regularly represents and advises healthcare, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies on state tax issues nationwide.
- Regularly represents media and entertainment companies in high-stakes litigation matters.
Admissions
- New York~United States (2014)
- California~United States (2014)
Education
- New York University School of Law (LLM) (2015)
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law (JD) (2013)
- Indiana University (BA) (2008)
Languages
- English
- Russian