Executive Summary

Damon V. Pike leads the Customs and International Trade practice within BDO’s International Tax Services group with over 30 years experience helping multinational companies navigate the complex rules governing the cross-border movement of goods and services.

Prior to launching his own firm in 2006, Damon spent 12 years with a Big Four firm as the National Director of the Customs Services practice. He has experience in the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government and was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of the Atlanta-based law firm of Kilpatrick & Cody (now Kilpatrick Townsend).

Damon is renowned for his insights in harmonizing transfer pricing policies and customs valuation requirements as part of designing in-house customs and trade compliance programs. He is an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law, where he teaches Customs Law based on the book he co-authored of the same name, the only U.S. law school casebook ever published in this field.