Professional Overview

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Bergin is a licensed attorney with extensive experience in tax law, planning, consulting, and transaction services. As the firm’s National Tax Practice Leader, he steers the firm’s strategic tax thought-leadership and serves as a firm-wide resource and subject matter expert. Bergin’s experience includes consulting and advisory services for customers of various industry sectors, utilizing his legal and consulting background to advise customers of all types and sizes on issues of domestic and cross-border restructuring, acquisitions, credits and incentives, spin-offs and other divestitures, and other tax advisory needs.

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Bergin is also the firm’s pioneering Sustainability & ESG Practice Leader. He and his team offer comprehensive services to enhance companies’ environmental needs, such as conducting readiness assessments, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting, reporting, and preparing effective responses to customer or vendor data requests. The practice also develops and implements sustainability improvement strategies tailored to the organization's needs.

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Prior to Elliott Davis, he served as in-house counsel to a global non-profit in the higher education industry and with 2 global Big-Four firms.

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Education, Credentials and Special Training

• LLM in Tax Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
• Juris Doctor, University of Illinois at Chicago Law School
• BA, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• Charleston Regional Development Alliance, Innovation Strategy Steering Committee and Global Business Development Council