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Multi-Chapter Virtual Event | Boardroom Essentials: Tax Compliance, Audit Preparedness, and Strategic Value Building for Private Companies

Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Category: South Florida

Boardroom Essentials: Tax Compliance, Audit Preparedness, and Strategic Value Building for Private Companies

Overview

This session will provide private company Directors with a practical, boardroom-level overview of key U.S. tax compliance requirements, audit preparedness strategies, and opportunities to enhance enterprise value through thoughtful planning. We will discuss common risk areas, emerging expectations from investors and lenders, and actionable steps companies can take today to strengthen transparency, efficiency, and long-term positioning.

Registration

$00 Members
$40 Non-Members

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Speaker

Scott Mager
Florida Market Managing Partner,
South Florida Private Equity
Industry Group Leader
Grant Thornton

Scott is an audit and assurance partner with more than 30 years of experience in public accounting, and also a member of Grant Thornton’s National Private Equity practice. Scott's work includes supervising and coordinating all services rendered to publicly and privately held clients in a variety of industries, with specific expertise in the financial services, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Scott has also worked extensively with local private equity group clients and specialty financial companies, on both accounting and consulting matters. Scott’s board service and professional affiliations include: Board Member—Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Board Member—South Florida Business Forum, and service in the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), and the Jason Taylor Foundation.

Moderator

Jose Antonio Alicea
Florida Market Partner,
Grant Thornton

Jose Antonio advises multinational companies on cross-border structuring, global tax strategy, foreign tax credit planning, GILTI and Subpart F, FDII, treaty considerations, and international expansions and reorganizations. His industry experience spans transportation, mining, retail, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, private equity, and energy. Jose A. previously served as GT’s International Tax Lead for the Desert Mountain West market (Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Reno), broadening his perspective on the evolving international tax landscape across diverse U.S. regions. With deep expertise in U.S. inbound and outbound planning, Jose helps U.S. companies expand abroad, and foreign businesses invest in the United States with practical, business-focused international tax guidance.