Francis Helverson

Prior to co-founding WTS-US, Francis was a Director with KPMG in New York City where he advised on complex mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, private equity and venture capital matters. Francis is fluent in German and spent three years working in the Frankfurt office of KPMG Deutsche Treuhand Gesellschaft where he provided sophisticated tax and transactional planning advice to German companies with US operations and investments. His clientele included many of the German DAX-30 companies as well as numerous companies from the German Mittelstand. Francis also counseled US-based companies with operations in Europe. Francis began his legal career with a well-known US law firm where he delivered corporate, transactional and tax advice to public and privately-owned companies.

Francis is licensed to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey. Born in New York in 1966, Francis received an LL.M. degree, in taxation, from New York University School of Law and a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from Rutgers University School of Law. Francis also received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and studied at the Universität Konstanz in Constance Germany. Francis lectures on tax and legal issues involving US investments and transactions and authors articles that appear in well-known international and domestic publications.