Melissa Gierach

Melissa Gierach joined DLA Piper in 2017 and is the Managing Director for tax policy overseeing technical and political advisement in all aspects of tax policy spanning both federal legislative and regulatory action with tax implications.

Prior to joining DLA Piper, she served as a senior advisor of tax and economic policy within the US Congress for nearly ten years, having worked for multiple senior Members of Congress seated on top-tier committees of jurisdiction within the House of Representatives. Additionally, Melissa spent the latter years of her tenure on Capitol Hill advising the House Ways and Means Committee Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman. 

While working on Capitol Hill, Melissa was focused on comprehensive tax reform efforts, with a more granular focus on the international tax space impacting multinational business. She developed, drafted and introduced more than a dozen pieces of stand-alone legislation in the tax space, as well as seeing through multiple pieces of tax legislation subsequently enacted into federal law.

She further worked to develop bipartisan legislation known as Innovation Box highlighted early in the 114th Congress by the Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee that turned into Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's foreign—derived intangible income (TCJA's FDII) provision.

Melissa Gierach is not a lawyer.