Biography:

Andy advises on all aspects of employment law, with particular expertise in advising companies on large scale workforce issues such as changing the terms of their pension arrangements for staff, reorganisations, changes to terms and conditions and TUPE transfers/outsourcing arrangements. He also has substantial experience of Tribunal work and negotiating severance packages with (and for) senior executives, as well as dealing with other contentious issues such as breach of confidentiality, team moves and post-termination restrictions.

In addition, Andy regularly advises on the employment and pensions aspects of corporate transactions, such as sales and purchases of businesses, group restructuring exercises and funding investment projects. He also presents seminars and delivers tailored training sessions to clients, as well as writing for a variety of publications.

Biography:

Andrew is a specialist in a variety of indirect taxes with a focus on GST, State Taxes and Customs related taxation matters.

Prior to PKF, Andrew was a Partner at a Big 4 accounting for more than 11 years. He has had extensive experience in providing comprehensive tax advice to small to medium enterprises right through to large multinational organisations. He also has strong relationships with senior officers from the Australian Taxation Office and other revenue authorities.

As well as working with a range of different sized businesses, Andrew is an experienced practitioner across a diverse range of industry sectors. He also has experience in establishing business operations in New Zealand, South Africa and Singapore.

His major clients include automotive importers, distributors and dealers, food wholesale and distributors, and consumer electronic companies. He also has a number of clients in the Retirement Village and Aged Care Sectors. In addition, Andrew has recently been working with clients servicing the NDIS and affordable housing sectors.

Andrew’s portfolio is broad and diversified and includes working with a number of start-ups on a range of business, tax and funding issues.

Andrew also sits on the advisory boards of a number of large Private Companies.

Andrew is a contributing author to the Australia country guide in Tolley’s Global VAT.

Biography:

Mairéad Hennessy founded Taxkey in 2016 as a tax practice that works closely with accountants, solicitors and financial advisors to deliver strategic and proactive tax solutions for Irish businesses and their owners.

Mairéad specialises in delivering bespoke tax solutions to SME owners on matters including business succession planning, optimising corporate structures, personal retirement and estate planning, Irish gift and inheritance tax, property transactions and VAT.

Mairéad is passionate about delivering the highest quality tax advice in a practical, timely and confidential manner.

Mairéad is a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA AITI) and Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland (FCA) and holds a Bachelor of Business and Law (BBLS) from UCD and a Masters in Accounting (MAcc) from the Michaels Smurfit School of Business.

Prior to setting up Taxkey, Mairéad held tax roles in a “Big 4” accountancy practice, a top 5 Irish law firm, a small accountancy firm and most recently headed up the tax function in a large Irish corporate group.

Biography:

Mira Rajanti is a VAT Tax Manager dedicated to helping businesses master the complexities of value-added taxation. With working experience from the Finnish Tax Administration and the private sector, Mira possesses a broad understanding of Finnish VAT legislation and tax practices. Mira is happy to assist businesses with various applications, tax audits, appeals, as well as VAT registrations and reporting. She contributes to Tolley and PKFs Global and EU VAT title.

Biography:

Deborah Vasquez is a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines. She holds a degree in accountancy and is taking up her Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Deborah has over ten years of professional experience working as a tax practitioner across diverse industries in the Philippines. Her tax expertise covers both the national and local taxes, including individual and corporate income taxes, business and transfer taxes, tax audit, and tax compliance.

Moreover, Deborah is the Tax and Compliance Manager at Reed Elsevier Philippines, where she manages the company’s overall compliance requirements emanating from various regulatory agencies in the Philippines. She is also a part-time instructor at her alma mater where she teaches accounting, finance, and tax subjects. Deborah is a contributing co-editor to the Philippine country guide of Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes.

Biography:

Morag is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Accountants in England and Wales and an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Governance, with almost thirty years’ experience in advising clients on accounting and tax matters. Morag has a wealth of experience and knowledge, specifically of the healthcare sector [private and NHS], with over 25 years working with clients across all aspects of healthcare provision.

Based in Armstrong Watson’s Leeds office, Morag is a partner and head of the specialist Healthcare Services Team. Morag leads by example and ensures her team all adopt a proactive approach to developing and managing robust client relationships. “Understanding our clients’ aspirations enables us to share timely and relevant advice with them, and where appropriate, affording time to implement mitigating action to minimise any potential financial risk”.

With regards to the healthcare sector, Armstrong Watson is a member of AISMA [Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants], a strategic partner to the MDU / DDU, listed as a specialist medical accountant and tax advisor with Medics Money and a member of the UK200 Healthcare Group, all of which demonstrate our expertise in this field.

Morag contributes to Tolley’s Tax Planning and to TolleyGuidance OMB.

Biography:

Helen Wood is the founder of HLN WD TX, a share schemes and employee incentives advisory business.

She qualified as a CA with ICAS in 2009 and has worked as a specialist reward and incentives advisor for 17 years, spending 13 of those at KPMG followed by 3 ½ years as an Associate Director at RSM. Helen has worked with businesses ranging from start-ups to fully listed companies, spanning owner-managed businesses, private equity portfolio companies, and AIM listed businesses.

She advises on a wide range of employee share schemes and employment related securities matters including the design and implementation of effective management and employee incentives; tax valuation of employment related securities, buy and sell side transaction support, HMRC compliance, tax due diligence and employee ownership trust transactions.

Biography:

Vincent has over 7 years of experience in providing tax advisory and compliance services to a broad range of clients, ranging from listed companies and MNCs to private companies. Vincent is a tax manager at Nexia TS, in Singapore, where he is the global mobility tax lead and transfer pricing tax lead, in addition to advising on various issues concerning corporate tax and tax due diligence.

Prior to joining Nexia TS, Vincent was at a big 4 accounting firm in Singapore. He is an Accredited Tax Practitioner (Income Tax) of the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals.

Biography:

Edd leads the indirect tax content team of Tolley. Edd and his team are responsible for a wide-range of indirect tax resources, including De Voil Indirect Tax Service, Tolley's VAT handbook and TolleyGuidance. Edd is a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser with over a decade of experience in VAT and finance.

Biography:

David is an experienced solicitor and member of Mewburn Ellis' legal services team.  David has extensive experience advising on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters. He has particular expertise in relation to disputes concerning patents, trade marks, and designs. He also advises on issues concerning copyright, domain names, confidential information, and Intellectual Property aspects of corporate and commercial transactions. David has advised on proceedings before the High Court, Court of Appeal, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, and UK and EU Intellectual Property Offices.

Areas of Expertise

• IP litigation and dispute resolution
• Contentious trade mark office proceedings
• Management and protection of IP
• Drafting and negotiating IP contracts
• Conducting IP due diligence in connection with the sale or purchase of IP rights, or for corporate investments, M&A or IPOs

Biography:

Chris is a Tax Director at BDO LLP, specialising in all aspects of owner managed business, and is recognised as a champion on such diverse topics as transactions, property, and pensions.

He also leads the BDO pensions and financial product tax advisory teams and is a consultant in BDO’s tax support for professionals team (advising other accountants, lawyers and tax professionals whether in house or in practice).

Chris also contributed to Tolley Guidance Employment Tax module re: pensions.

Biography:

Catherine is a Tax Partner with PKF O’Connor Leddy & Holmes Ltd and leads the VAT Department.Catherine has advised both domestic and international clients and work closely with foreign tax advisers to deliver VAT advice. Catherine and her team, devise solutions and provide their clients with comprehensive VAT advice enabling them to realise the full tax implications of the transaction.

Catherine has advised and delivered CPD lectures on business VAT transactions, VAT on property, structuring property transactions, and Brexit VAT considerations. She worked closely with the SFA on their business strategy document ‘A Supportive Tax Environment for Small Firms’.

Catherine is a contributing author to the Republic of Ireland country guide in Tolley's Global VAT.

Biography:

Helen Cuthbert is a Senior Tax Manager in the Private Client Team.

Helen specialises in International Private Client Tax matters. Helen assists international individuals moving to the UK; advising on residence, the remittance basis of taxation and remittance planning. In addition, Helen advises UK resident and domiciled individuals leaving to spend time outside the UK.

Helen joined James Cowper Kreston in 2013 and advises a varied portfolio of International and UK based clients. Helen gained extensive experience in Big 4 and Top 10 firms, together with a number of years spent as a tax tutor preparing candidates for the Institute professional exams. Helen is experienced in a wide range of taxation issues including; income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, enveloped property and pre-arrival remittance planning. Helen has a particular interest in the UK taxation of offshore trusts including inheritance tax issues, capital gains tax deferral and the transfer of assets abroad.

Biography:

Andrey Krahmal is a member of Temple Tax Chambers.

He represents individuals, trusts, partnerships and companies of all sizes in connection with their inbound and outbound US tax issues (including FATCA matters).

Andrey currently contributes to Tiley & Collison's UK Tax Guide.

Biography:

David Heaton FCA CTA has specialised in employment taxes, national insurance (social security taxes) and tax investigations since the late 1980s. After senior positions in Big 4 firms and partnership for 13 years in a national firm, he became a sole practitioner in 2014.

His main focuses are:

• PAYE
• employment status and temporary/agency workers
• employee share incentives
• share valuation for tax purposes
• expatriate/migrant workers
• tax investigations

He was the original author and for many years the editor of CCH's British NIC Guide, but he is now the editor of Tolley's National Insurance and a contributor to Taxwise, Tolley's Tax Planning, Simon's Taxes and Taxline Tax Planning on employment taxes and NIC matters.

As a lecturer for professional institutes and training businesses he is known for his down-to-earth and often irreverent style. He was briefly a member of HMRC's GAAR panel, invited because of his nationally recognised expertise in employment taxes, but he resigned after a press expose that revealed that he advised clients and fellow professionals as well as HMRC.

He has chaired the ICAEW's Employment Taxes & NIC Committee for many years and is a past chairman of the Institute's Tax Faculty. He is also a member of two relevant technical sub-committees of the CIOT.

Biography:

Simon McKie is the Chairman of McKie & Co which won the ‘Best Tax Consultancy Team’ award in the 2012 and 2015 Taxation Awards and the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners award for ‘Boutique Firm of the Year’ in 2009/2010 and was most recently shortlisted in 2019.

Simon specialises in private client taxation providing bespoke tax advice to solicitors, accountants and private clients themselves.  This includes inheritance tax planning, advice on domicile and changes of residence status, offshore trusts, the remittance basis, the making of voluntary disclosures to HMRC and the review of existing tax structures.  In addition, he has a particular expertise in the management of complex tax legislation and the provision of expert witness reports.

He is the joint author of Tolley’s Estate Planning and McKie on Statutory Residence.

He is a member of both the Private Client (UK) and Private Client (International) sub-committees of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a member of the Technical Committee of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.

Biography:

Ibrahim Jabri is a Tax Policy Adviser and Trainer at PwC Middle East and PwC Academy, with over nine years of experience in tax, finance, and academia. He specialises in tax policies, UAE corporate tax, and transfer pricing, advising government authorities across the GCC on policy development and implementation.

Ibrahim holds three bachelor’s degrees and four master’s degrees, including a Master’s in Tax Law and a Master’s in Data Analytics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Technology Delft.

As an academic, Ibrahim has lectured at leading universities in the Netherlands, including Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Amsterdam. In the UAE alone, he has trained over 2,000 professionals through various tax training programmes, such as the UAE Corporate Tax Diploma and Transfer Pricing Diploma. In addition to his advisory and teaching roles, Ibrahim conducts research on the application of artificial intelligence within the Dutch judicial system.

Biography:

Liz is a partner in our Global Employer Services practice and leads Deloitte’s incentives and reward legal team. She is a solicitor with 20 years experience advising on all aspects of incentives and reward.

Liz advises on the full breadth of services relating to share plans, including the design of new plans, implementing plans and their day to day operation. She has substantial experience advising on all related incentives matters and the impact of corporate transactions on share plans. Liz has deep technical knowledge on the legal and tax aspects of incentives.

Liz’s clients include major listed companies and financial services clients. She works closely with heads of reward, heads of tax, company secretaries and share plan teams as well as remuneration committee members. She also contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.