Small Jewels 2009: Worldwide Trade Partners

Worldwide Trade Partners, as its leaders describe it, is an international tax firm that focuses more on people than numbers. And it’s a strategy that ensures that the firm continually wins clients away from the Big 4.

Joe Kornik | March 19, 2009

Worldwide Trade Partners Worldwide Trade Partners co-founders Michael Minihan and Ian Boccaccio

Worldwide Trade Partners, as its leaders describe it, is an international tax firm that focuses more on people than numbers. And it's a strategy that ensures that the firm continually wins clients away from the Big 4.

And they're certainly qualified to do that: As former PricewaterhouseCoopers tax consultants, WTP founders Ian Boccaccio and Michael Minihan know a lot about international tax law. But they also know a lot about building client relationships—and wanting stronger ones drove them to start their own firm. "We really just felt like we weren't doing as good a job as we could be doing with our clients and really building relationships," Minihan says of the duo's time at PwC, "so what we saw was our opportunity."

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