Biography:

My background is in UK corporate tax, but I particularly specialise in the following areas;

EIS and Venture Capital tax schemes

Advising companies on using the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to raise equity, including advice on structuring, HMRC Advance Assurance applications and compliance issues. I also advise on Venture Capital Trusts and Seed EIS (SEIS).

Creative Industries Tax credits

I advise on tax credits claimed by Film Production companies, and similar production companies claiming credits for high-end television, animation, and children's programmes as well as for video game development.

Public Private Partnerships

I advise on direct tax issues to public sector bodies and private sector bidders for PPP projects and similar projects, including in respect of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Biography:

Paul Randall is a Senior Counsel at, and a former Partner in Hogan Lovells where he headed the London Executive Compensation and Share Incentives practice. He has 35 years’ experience of advising on the legal, tax and regulatory aspects of equity and cash-based incentive plans and employee trusts. He frequently advises in the context of corporate transactions including many IPOs, takeovers and capital raisings. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Share Plan Lawyers and the co-chair of the Share Plan Lawyers’ Corporate and Regulatory Committee.

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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.

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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.

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With more than 20 years of experience in both industry and consultancy across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia, Rubeena specializes in cross-border taxation and transfer pricing in Africa and the Middle East.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and qualified in International Tax and Transfer Pricing at the Chartered Institute of Taxation UK.

Rubeena is the author of the Mauritius country guide in Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes.

Biography:

After being called to the Bar of England and Wales (Lincoln’s Inn, 2011), Jivaan began his career in the Tax and Legal Services team of a Big4 accounting firm in the Caribbean, where he managed the tax and commercial disputes portfolio.

He retrained and qualified as a solicitor into the corporate tax team of Linklaters LLP (London). His tax practice primarily entails advising on potentially contentious legal issues (tax and commercial) in the context of cross-border M&A, corporate reorganisations and finance transactions, as well as assisting clients in resolving tax disputes with tax authorities, including representation before the relevant tribunals and courts.

Jivaan regularly advises clients in a range of sectors, spanning private equity and financial sponsors, financial institutions, fintech, consumer goods, energy and sports. Jivaan has a fervent interest in legislative policy development in developing countries, especially as it relates to international taxation and commercial law.

Current and past projects in this respect include:

(i) advising the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the drafting of three model Bills relating to company, insolvency and partnership laws;

(ii) advising a state on its tax reforms to comply with OECD requirements to facilitate removal from the grey list; and

(iii) developing and delivery tax training to the tax authority of a state’s tax authority on international tax law issues, including double tax treaties and transfer pricing. Jivaan is a member of Linklaters’ Latin America Group and is Head of the Linklaters Caribbean Desk. Outside of practice, Jivaan is a visiting lecturer at King’s College London on the International Tax Law LLM, where he lectures on the International Tax Law and the EU Tax Law modules and supervises dissertations related to these topics.

Biography:

Malcolm Gunn is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and has over 50 years of experience in advising on all aspects of UK tax, although he has a particular interest in capital taxes. For 16 years, he was an editor of the weekly magazine Taxation. In 2004, he left the magazine to concentrate on consultancy and advisory work.

Malcolm Gunn continues to contribute frequently to technical publications on UK tax, including a chapter each year in Tolley's Tax Planning on Relevant Property Trusts. He is the current author of Tolley's Inheritance Tax and joint author with Julie Butler of Stanley's UK Taxation of Farmers & Landowners. He is also general editor of Foster's Inheritance Tax, and a consultant with Butler and Co chartered accountants.

Malcolm Gunn was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award in the LexisNexis 2004 Tax Awards and is a member of the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

Biography:

Richard has been in practice for over 25 years, originally specialising in corporate tax for large corporates and multinationals but has spent most of his career devoted to looking after the interests of UK owner manager businesses, their owners and their wider families.  He has carved out a reputation for making complicated concepts of taxation understandable for his clients. This is a skill he has put to good use in co-authoring Tolley’s Tax Planning For Owner Managed Businesses 2020-21, with his colleagues Craig Simpson and Cassandra Graham at Bates Weston Tax Advisory Ltd.

Biography:

Rory Mullan KC is a barrister specialising in revenue law. He advises individuals, trustees and companies on a wide range of taxation matters. He also represents taxpayers in disputes before the Tax Tribunals and Courts.

Rory contributes to Tolley's Property Taxation.

Biography:

Kiran specialises in executive remuneration and incentives matters.

Kiran advises on the establishment and operation of a wide range of cash and share-based incentive arrangements for both listed and private clients in the UK and globally.  She also works with clients on the remuneration aspects of executive recruitments and terminations and advises on corporate governance issues and compliance.

In addition, Kiran advises clients on the incentive plan aspects of transactions, including takeovers, IPOs, schemes of arrangement, rights issues, demergers and schemes of arrangement.

Kiran is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers group and of ProShare focus groups.  She is also a contributor to Revenue Law – Principles and Practice on the taxation of share plans.

Biography:

Rob - CTA (Fellow) - is a cross-tax advisor with a particular focus on property tax planning, and business structure planning for OMB’s. He provides tax advice to other accounting firms, balancing commerciality, ethics, and understanding complexity.

His 32+ years of experience start at the Inland Revenue in Hull. After completing his ATT and CTA with PKF, he subsequently worked at KPMG and UHY prior to managing the business tax team as a director at Garbutt + Elliott. Rob is now Tax Director at the independent tax consultancy, Crane Dale Tax.

He is a regular author for Tolley publications, including Taxation magazine, and Tolley annuals covering Capital Allowances, Property Tax, Tax Planning , and Taxwise annuals. He is also consultant editor of the online Tolley Guidance OMB module. He contributes as a virtual member to the CIOT Property Tax and OMB technical committees.

Rob works remotely from Vancouver in Canada.

Biography:

Marco Herrmann graduated as a Certified Tax Advisor (Steuerberater) in 2002 and then specialised in VAT consulting. For many years, he has headed the VAT department at the PKF Fasselt Partnerschaft mbB location in Cologne and is also a member of PKF's national and international Indirect Tax (VAT) Expert Working Group. His clients of various sizes and from a wide range of industries have in common that they have to deal with VAT matters with highest professional demands, on a daily basis. Also on a daily basis, clients receive advice from Marco and his team at the required high professional and practice-oriented level. The tasks include, not least, the organisation of coordinated appropriate VAT/GST advice worldwide by the many PKF VAT and GST experts around the world.

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Sarah specialises in all aspects of real estate fund taxation including fundraising and advising on equity investments into real estate.

Her experience includes:

• complex high-value real estate transactions;
• structuring a variety of different investment platforms domiciled in a diverse range of jurisdictions; and
• acting for institutional investors and private equity real estate funds.

Sarah is a member of the Investment Association's Tax Committee and the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group.

Biography:

Head of the Tax at PKF Francis Clark with particular responsibility for family businesses and professional partnerships, property and international tax services.

Considerable expertise in business structuring advice and long term planning with a particular focus on capital gains tax (entrepreneurs' relief, Enterprise Investment Scheme and investor's relief) and inheritance tax business property relief and agricultural property relief.

Biography:

Ian is a knowledge counsel in the tax department at Travers Smith. He has a particular focus on tax issues relating to the asset management sector. Ian regularly writes articles for tax publications. Ian contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

Biography:

Philip is an experienced Transfer Pricing director. He is a subject matter expert with experience in both industry and advisory. Having worked in financial services and the technology sector, he prides himself on providing pragmatic advice which is both easy to implement and provides suitable substantiation. He has experience advising clients across multiple sectors and has recently worked with a government to formulate transfer pricing policy. He has worked with multiple tax jurisdictions worldwide.

Biography:

My goal is to help entrepreneurs grow their business in France and abroad by providing them financial, accounting and tax advice and solutions.

15+ years of experience in Finance, External & Internal Audit in a Big 4 Accounting Firm and Industry.

Experience in working with all management levels in cross cultural environments

spanning Asia, Americas, Europe, Middle-East & Africa.

Proven ability to demonstrate a comprehensive approach to resolve complex issues and to achieve targets / meet deadlines despite challenging situations.

Biography:

Mike Thexton has been talking and writing about tax since passing the examinations of ICAEW in 1983 and CIOT in 1984. He currently spends his working time presenting regular VAT updates for the specialist staff of several large and medium-sized firms of accountants, writing the Quarterly Online VAT Update for LexisNexis, and providing tax and accountancy services to personal and small company clients.

Mike won the Taxation Magazine Tax Writer of the Year Award 2010 for his articles in the professional press, leaflets for the clients of accountancy firms and technical material on VAT. Among the pieces submitted to the judging panel were answers to Taxation magazine's Readers' Queries, concealed behind a mysterious pseudonym.

He has also published a book, "What happened to the hippy man?", about his experience at the centre of the hijacking of PanAm 073 in Karachi in September 1986. He is working on "VAT the heck!", a collection of weird and wonderful stories from the world of VAT, and looking for a publisher…