Associate at Baker McKenzie LLP
Christina Norman is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Global Tax Practice Group in Chicago. She regularly advises both multinational corporations and individuals at all stages of tax disputes, from audit to administrative appeal and litigation before the United States Tax Court and other federal courts.
Christina maintains an active pro bono practice, representing clients impacted by gender-based violence in administrative expungement appeals of DCFS indicated findings as well as educationally challenged children regarding their right to a public education. She has also been a mentor in the North America Tax Practice Group's annual tax mentorship program in partnership with the National Black Law Students Association since its start in 2020.
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Chicago, Illinois
Christina’s practice focuses on a variety of tax controversy matters including transfer pricing disputes, refund litigation, and other domestic and international tax disputes. She works with clients in a diversity of industries, including technology and the life sciences.
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Chicago, Illinois
Office of the Governor
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Synectics Inc.
Colegio de La Salle
Greater Bilbao Metropolitan Area
Vermillion Financial Advisors
September 2025
-Amgen Inc. v. Commissioner, United States Tax Court, Docket No. 16017-21 (multibillion-dollar transfer pricing dispute) -Cross Refined Coal, LLC v. Commissioner, United States Tax Court Docket No. 19502-17 (challenge to claimed section 45 credits) -Successful representation of numerous pro bono clients in administrative hearings and Chancery Court against the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services.
Best Lawyers
September 2025
Recognized as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Commercial Litigation, Litigation and Controversy: Tax and Tax Law, 2026
North America Tax News and Developments, Baker McKenzie
July 2022
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July 2021
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August 2020
In September 2017, Bank of America filed suit in the Western District of North Carolina seeking to recover both overpaid interest on underpayments (interest a taxpayer owes to the IRS) and interest on overpayments (interest the IRS owes to a taxpayer) arising under 26 U.S.C. §§ 6601 and 6611.
North America Tax News and Developments, Baker McKenzie
September 2019
In the Tax Court, the IRS challenged the allocation of Code Section 45 credits and deductions stemming from Schneider Electric’s (“Schneider”) investment in a partnership created to refine coal. The critical questions were, first, whether Cross Refined Coal LLC (“Cross”) was a bona fide partnership, and second, whether Schneider and the other members of the partnership, Fidelity Investments (“Fidelity”) and Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., were bona fide partners. In a rare set of circumstances for a case of this size, Judge David Gustafson issued a bench opinion at the end of trial. The bench opinion, which Judge Gustafson read on August 14, concluded that Schneider, along with the other members, were bona fide partners entitled to their claimed credits and deductions.
Dell Technologies, Inc. & Baker McKenzie Central Texas TEI Tax Workshop — Texas
June 2023
Co-presenter
TEI Wisconsin
September 2022
Co-presenter
Tax Executive Institute Tax School — Houston
March 2022
Co-presenter
CLE Course, ProLawCLE
October 2020
Co-presenter