Cyrus Daftary
Burt, Staples and Maner, LLP
Cyrus Daftary is is a partner at Burt, Staples and Maner, LLP, specializing in international taxation and regulatory compliance. Mr. Daftary has particularly extensive experience with the United States withholding and reporting rules for U.S. and non-U.S. persons, as well as the USA Patriot Act and various anti-money laundering regimes, the European Savings Directive, and e-commerce issues.
Mr. Daftary has worked with a large number of major financial institutions and multinational corporations, and continues to do so as an advisor and executive member of Compliance Technologies International, LLP. In this capacity, he addresses the problems associated with compliance obligations and implements operational, systemic processes, outsourcing, and IT solutions to ensure prospective compliance with these rules.
Mr. Daftary has extensively lectured and published in the areas of anti-money laundering, the European Savings Directive, international withholding and reporting, tax technology, and e-commerce topics as a part of both his academic and private practice. Mr. Daftary is a co-author of three editions of the E-Business Legal Handbook, and has taught courses on cyber-law, Internet taxation and e-commerce as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University School of Law, Northeastern University’s Master of Taxation program, and Suffolk University’s Frank Sawyer School of Business.
In 1990, Mr. Daftary graduated from Indiana University with a B.S. He earned his J.D. in 1994 from the University of Dayton School of Law and his LL.M. in 1996 from Temple University. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Indiana and Massachusetts.