Biography:

Raminta is a Chartered Accountant for more than 10 years, working with international businesses. She is now a Chief Executive Officer running accountancy firm through which she continues to offer various tax services. She is experienced accounting and corporate tax adviser from SMEs to large multinationals, across many industry sectors.

Biography:

During a long career, mainly spent training students for the ATT and CTA examinations, Simon has played a small role in starting the careers of many a tax professional. During the last 18 years at Tolley he has spent most of that time leading the Tax Examinations business but has now relinquished that position to return to presenting courses again.

Prior to joining Tolley he spent time as a student at Arthur Young (now EY) where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and Financial Training (now Kaplan) where he discovered a love of all things tax, which made studying and passing the ATII (now CTA) exams that little bit easier. He returned to EY in 2000, to work in their National Tax Training Team before joining Tolley in 2006.

Simon joined the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) Council in 2018 and is the Association’s immediate past President. He also serves on their Finance Steering Group, as well as a number of working parties.

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Hira is a Real Estate Tax Partner within BDO’s award winning Real Estate and Construction Group. He has specialised in property taxation for almost all his professional career and currently advises a wide range of clients in relation to their UK and global property interests. A particular specialism is UK and overseas collective investment schemes, both regulated and unregulated.

Hira is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and has sat on the Tax Committees of the British Property Federation and INREV.

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Barbara is Founder and Managing Partner of PKF Studio TCL - Tax Consulting Legal based in Italy, in Genoa Milan and Rome, www.studiotcl.com.

Barbara qualified as a Chartered Accountant, at Genoa’s Order of Chartered Accountants, in 2003. Since then, she has gained more than twenty years of professional experience in corporate tax and corporate consulting during the professional career as Director at Deloitte’s Corporate Tax Office; as partner in Primary Tax and Corporate Consultancy Firm in Genoa and Milan; registered for over 15 years in the Register of Auditors, now Statutory Auditors.

During her professional activity, she has gained experience in the field of tax and corporate accounting consulting, M&A, Due diligence, even in international environments, during the experience gained at Deloitte and within PKF international network, business evaluations, valuations, fairness opinion, pre-litigation and tax litigation management, insolvency proceedings, separate and consolidated financial statements, application of IAS-IFRS.

Barbara is also a member of Tax&Legal Commission in AIFI (Italian Private Equity, Venture Capital and Private Debt Association), which the PKF Studio TCL is associated with.

She has performed as speaker and publicist in topics of Permanent Establishment, Tax Inversion, Responsibility of the Statutory Auditor of the Portfolio Company (Private Debt Sector) and Family Office.

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Erika Jupe is a partner in the corporate tax team at Osborne Clarke LLP where she heads the International Tax Group. She advises on a wide range of cross-border corporate tax issues, with a particular emphasis on investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate finance and has a particular interest in the tax issues flowing from digital business.

Erika qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and joined Osborne Clarke in 1997. She became a partner in 1998.

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Justine Riccomini is head of tax (employment & devolved), ICAS. She joined the ICAS tax department in November 2016. Prior to this, Justine specialised in employment taxation and strategic HR projects, with the last five years spent running her own consulting business in conjunction with two projects as a senior policy advisor at the Office of Tax Simplification. Her 19 years in practice was preceded by ten years at HMRC.

Email: jriccomini@icas.com.

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Liz started her career with EY in Bristol in 1992, where she passed the AAT exams and then trained as a Certified Accountant. Once qualified, she became involved in the recruitment and internal training of graduate accounting and tax trainees at EY. She joined BPP Bristol as a tutor in 1999 and passed CTA in May 2007, winning The Ian Walker Medal for the highest mark in Paper I.

Over her last 5 years at BPP Liz managed Bristol Tax Courses, taught across a broad range of qualifications and subject areas and wrote materials for CTA, ATT and ICAEW exams.

Liz joined Tolley Exam Training in 2012 as a tutor and a writer. Liz is head of the Bristol Centre and provides an unrivalled level of service to local clients and students, and manages the learning resource nationally.

Liz still loves being in the classroom, and teaches across the CTA and ATT qualifications.

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Since 2006, Jordi is Director of GD Global Mobility, the division of Gesdocument (www.gesdocument.com/en), specialized in advising and managing international mobility and assist international businesses and individuals to get established in Spain.

Jordi has a degree in Labor Relations at Universitat de Barcelona. Throughout his 19 years of experience advising major international corporations on global mobility issues, corporate and personal immigration laws and procedures in the European Union, Asia and America, he has been able to develop his professional skills in highly relevant companies such as PwC and E&Y.

During his professional activity, he has gained experience in the field of expatriate taxation, payroll, and international social security. Due to his international activity, he’s member of the most important international associations in this field such as EURA, ERC Worldwide and he’s also Chairman of Expat SIG at Leading Edge Alliance (LEA), one of the world’s largest professional law firm associations.

He was also an associate professor at both ESADE and ISDE, main business schools in Spain, and directs international conferences on expatriation issues related to Spain.

He is also co-author of the Immigration Guide for Investors of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

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Michael is an independent consultant with more than 30 years’ experience. He focuses on transparency, anti-corruption and good governance issues. He is also a political risk and stakeholder engagement expert with a focus on the Middle East. His book on Gaza will be published in the near future. He has worked for Middle East Broadcasting Centre, Control Risks Group, the Eurasia Group and for the international gas company BG Group as an international government relations manager in Egypt, Oman and Gaza. At BG Group, he was also responsible for the transparency agenda, especially the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). He has also lived, worked and travelled extensively in the Middle East, advising companies on assessing and mitigating political risk in the region. Michael studied Arabic at the University of Edinburgh where he gained an MA (Hons).

He is a recognised expert in beneficial ownership disclosure and provides technical assistance to governments and government agencies introducing measures to tackle corruption, money laundering and other financial crimes, and has worked with jurisdictions across four continents. In collaboration with Tim Law, he co-developed the BO6 framework for the design and implementation of beneficial ownership reporting regimes. He is an expert to the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division and the EU AML/CFT Global Facility and has been a member of the B20 Integrity and Compliance Taskforce. He has also delivered projects funded by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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Amanda has 13 years practical experience with KPMG and PWC and worked with tax counsel on tax planning. She also worked as part of a Corporate finance team as the tax advisor for sales and purchases of companies/groups including listed groups.

Amanda has over 20 years’ experience in tax training and designs and writes the bespoke study manuals for the ADIT Energy Resources and Transfer Pricing papers as well as the classroom material for these papers.  She has also designed and written a lot of the classroom material for the ADIT paper 2.09 UK option and has reviewed the Paper 1 Principles of International Tax manual to ensure that it is syllabus focussed.

Amanda uses a lot of humour in her classroom courses and has a very practical approach to both the law and the exams.

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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:

Oliver John was previously at Mazars for just more than five years where he provided tax and share valuation advice to a range of businesses with regards to share transactions. In his role as director at Azets, Oliver will continue to share tax advice with clients over the life of a business, from companies looking to raise capital to shareholders looking to exit.

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Josephine Matambo is the Tax Partner at PKF Chartered Accountants (Zimbabwe) responsible for managing the Tax Service Line. She is a fellow of the Institute of Certified Tax Accountants (ICTA) Zimbabwe and also of the Zimbabwe Institute of Tax Accountants (ZITA). She is a registered tax practitioner with the Public Accountants and Auditors Board (PAAB) Zimbabwe.

She holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (University of Zimbabwe), Bachelor of Accountancy degree (University of Zimbabwe), and a Tax Administration Certificate (Royal Institute of Public Administration- UK), among other professional and tertiary qualifications. She has an illustrious career history that started in 1981 with the Tax Department in the Government of Zimbabwe where she rose to Assistant Commissioner of Taxes.

Josephine held senior posts in various other accounting firms including being a tax partner at KPMG Angola. She has been an Associate Director in Tax at PwC Zimbabwe and held senior positions in KPMG Mozambique, Coopers & Lybrand/Ernst & Young Zimbabwe and BDO Kudenga & Co Zimbabwe.

She studied VAT systems in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Kenya and New Zealand, while she was one of the four consultants to the Zimbabwean Government in 1998 to study the then existing indirect tax, propose a VAT system and participate in drafting the VAT law upon introduction of VAT in Zimbabwe. Thereafter she provided VAT consultancy to the Parliament of Zimbabwe and to industrial and commercial bodies in Zimbabwe, as well as VAT training to companies throughout Zimbabwe and established herself as the VAT expert in Zimbabwe at that time. Josephine has tax experience in all sectors in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

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Ximena draws from prior experience in public law and has a successful tax advisory and litigation practice representing clients in Judicial Review, High Court claims and substantive tax appeals in the Tribunals and beyond.

In the span of her 18-year career, she has represented and appeared on behalf of taxpayers in complex Judicial Review proceedings and group appeal litigation for 350+ appellants with tax at stake of several £100m.  She is uniquely familiar with procedure, FTT rules, costs and alternative dispute resolution strategy.

Ximena has published numerous articles, case reports, commentaries and text books on tax legislation and caselaw.

Her clients include a variety of media personalities, HNW individuals, OMBs and multinational corporates.

Biography:

I am an accountant with expertise in various domains such as bookkeeping, tax compliance, and VAT. I have a strong background in financial accounting and reporting, as well as in auditing and assurance.

I am proficient in using various accounting software and tools to manage and analyze data. I am also familiar with the latest accounting standards and regulations, and I can help clients with their tax planning and filing needs.

I am a contributing author to the Bulgaria country guide in Tolley’s EU/Global VAT.

Biography:

Jayne advises businesses on R&D tax relief and tax disputes and has worked across a range of sectors, including marine, pharmaceuticals, defence and aerospace. Combining an academic background in science with Big Four accounting experience in the UK and Middle East, Jane has a track record of successfully navigating complex HMRC tax enquiries.

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Nicolas Martins works for a “Big Four” firm, primarily advising on corporate tax matters.

His Master’s Thesis focused on Action XIV of the OECD’s BEPS initiative, and he has since published various other articles on subjects relating to international tax litigation.

Nicolas lives in Brussels and enjoys the gym and classical piano.

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An experienced tax professional with a strong focus on Saudi Arabian tax regulations, including Zakat and Corporate Income Tax. With years of experience advising businesses on tax compliance and strategic tax planning, Amr specializes in helping organizations meet regulatory requirements while optimizing their tax positions. Amr has worked extensively on tax advisory projects, including the design and implementation of tax policies, transfer pricing strategies, and ensuring compliance with local laws. Amr’s deep knowledge of the Saudi tax landscape makes him a trusted advisor for companies navigating the complexities of the Saudi tax system.