Brian Rowbotham
Managing Partner
br@rowbotham.com
(415) 536 - 7009
Download vCard
Credetial
CPA - California
Education
University of California Berkeley
(B.A. 1972 )
(M.A. 1975)
Brian Rowbotham is a CPA with 33 years of experience advising businesses and individuals on complex domestic and international income and estate tax planning. He is the founding partner of Rowbotham & Company LLP which is almost exclusively dedicated to businesses and investors needing both domestic and international tax and accounting services.
His clients include private and public companies around the globe which consist of: U.S. and foreign institutional investors, multinational families and executives and non-U.S. investors doing business in the U.S. Mr. Rowbotham has advised clients in major domestic and international litigation and has also served on the boards of both privately held and publicly traded companies. From 1992 to 2006, he directly supervised his firm’s engagement by trustees in Europe to assist with the recoveries of funds from one of the largest frauds in U.K. history. Over the past 20 years, he has represented large European and Middle Eastern institutional investors and numerous Asian families investing in U.S. Real Estate transactions.
Mr. Rowbotham has been a frequent guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, and at the University of San Francisco. He taught graduate courses on corporate and partnership taxation at the University of California Extension. He has been a speaker for several U.S. and international tax planning organizations, including the ITPA and STEP, in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He presented in-house training lectures on investment structures for acquisitions of U.S. property at major European trust companies and banking institutions.
He is member of the Tax Division of the AICPA and a past president of the San Francisco Tax Club. Mr. Rowbotham is a former featured columnist for Outlook, the official journal for the California Society of CPAs.
Reuters Venture Capital Journal, STEP publications, Offshore Investment, and numerous local tax and business publications.
He has been a contributor to numerous journals including Reuters Venture Capital Journal, STEP publications, Offshore Investment, Journal of Accountancy and numerous business, tax and investment journals. In 2005, he was profiled in the San Francisco Business Times as an entrepreneur of the accounting profession. In April 2009, his article "Doing Business in China" was featured on the cover of the California CPA Journal.
Mr. Rowbotham began his career in national accounting firms in San Francisco and London, specializing in international tax, before founding Rowbotham & Company in 1991. He was born in Buenos Aires with British citizenship, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1969. He earned his bachelors degree and MBA, with honours, from the University of California, Berkeley.
