Atsuko Kamen and Lucia Fedina joined the firm as a managing directors in its economic and valuation services practice, both are based in New York. In the Los Angeles office, Victor Thayer has joined as a senior manager within the same practice group.

Fedina (left) is responsible for providing transfer pricing services to clients in financial services, pharmaceutical, and other industries. Before joining KPMG, Fedina worked for almost 10 years at another big four firm, where she specialised in transfer pricing for various industries, and specific issues related to emerging markets.

Kamen focuses on US-Japan transfer pricing matters, working with the KPMG member firm in Japan as well as KPMG’s Japanese practice in the US to assist clients with issues involving transfer pricing documentation, tax authority interaction and planning. Before joining KPMG, Kamen also worked at another big four firm, where she led its Northeast Japanese transfer pricing practice.