Liga Hoy resigns from Franklin Templeton to join DLA Piper’s Transfer Pricing team

DLA Piper announced today that Liga Hoy has joined the firm as a principal economist for the International Tax practice in San Francisco.

Hoy joins DLA Piper from Franklin Templeton Investments, where she served as the director of global transfer pricing in its Corporate Finance unit. There, she assisted in the development and implementation of global transfer pricing policies across multinational jurisdictions and advised on pricing solutions to support complex products and financial services. Prior to that, she served as a transfer pricing economist at Barclays Global Investors, principal economist at the consulting firm CRA International, and senior economist at the US Treasury, Internal Revenue Service.  She is particularly experienced in transfer pricing issues relating to the Financial Services and High Technology industries.

Hoy received a Master’s degree in International Economics from University of California and a B.S. degree in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University. She is involved in several professional organizations, including the Tax Policy Institute, Tax Executives Institute, the International Fiscal Association, and the American Bar Association, among others. Ms. Hoy serves as Honorary Consul for Latvia in Northern California and is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Hoy is active in the Baltic community, serving on the Advisory Board of Directors of the Latvian American Business Association of California.

“We are delighted to have Liga join us as part of DLA Piper’s international tax group,” said David Colker, global head of the Tax Practice.  “She will join our existing US economist team in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Silicon Valley.”