To: A. de Rothschild COLOM, Olivie Fran: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Wed 12/4/2013 1:02:18 PM Subject: he will join Mr. West served for nearly four years as the Treasury Department's International Tax Counsel, the senior international tax lawyer in the US government. In that position, he played a central role in virtually every policy, legislative, and regulatory development in the international tax area and led tax treaty negotiations, discussions, and ratification efforts involving countries throughout the world. Mr. West also played a major role in the US work at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and led official delegations there and on other missions. He has practical experience with many foreign tax systems and good relationships with foreign tax officials and private practitioners around the world. He is regularly called on to advise government officials with respect to sensitive and complex tax matters and has testified before Congress several times on international tax matters. EFTA_R1_00405008 EFTA01944032