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Zoe Andrews is PSL Counsel and Head of Tax Knowledge at Slaughter and May. She has extensive experience of UK corporate tax and takes a special interest in international tax policy and developments. With her team, she supports all aspects of the firm’s tax practice.

Email: zoe.andrews@slaughterandmay.com; tel: 020 7090 5017

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Nora Matei is a Romanian lawyer as well as a registered foreign legal advisor with the Northern Ireland Law Society. She is one of the founding partners of BMA Legal – Bogoiu, Matei & Associates.

She has experience of practising law in Romania and abroad. Her extensive legal knowledge covers both civil law and court procedure.  She has advised on civil law matters, commercial law, family law, employment law, criminal law, tax dispute as well as data protection. With her extensive experience, she often supplies expert opinions on Romanian law and practise for use in foreign courts.

She has built an extensive practise providing advice to many clients on labour and employment issues as well as visa and immigration issues.  She advises clients in restructuring of their businesses to minimize the legal effect on the business and the employees.

She is an author of the Romania country guide in Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes product.

Nora can be contacted at nora@bmalegal.ro.

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Paul Tew is a freelance adviser, primarily in the areas of pay, personal taxation and remuneration planning. A frequent contributor to technical journals on pay and benefits issues, having written for the "In Business" section of the Times. Paul continues to supply articles for various recognised professional publications including Pay and Benefits magazine, Taxation magazine and Company's Secretary's Review. Paul also has had several loose leaf and bound books published on a variety of subject matter including PAYE, NIC, Sickness and Maternity Pay.

Paul has written and presented training courses as well as headed up payroll and employment help desks and acted as an assessor for recognised Payroll/HR qualifications. Paul previously worked in the healthcare and oil sectors managing Pay and benefit services, so has many years of experience in dealing with PAYE and employment compliance issues across a broad range of industries and organisations.

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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.

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I am responsible for the delivery of Stamp Taxes advice across the UK firm to all types of client from private individuals to large corporate groups I also provide advice to large corporate, not for profit and public sector clients on a wide range of tax matters, particularly in relation to Real Estate matters and business reconstructions. I have been with Grant Thornton for over 13 years, an have over 17 years experience in Stamp Taxes. I also have significant experience in both urban regeneration and in Public / Private transactions involving property, having advised housing associations, house builders and local and central government.

Sector experience

• Property taxation
• Housing
• SDLT
• Public/private transactions
• Business reconstructions

Professional qualifications and memberships

• PhD
• ACA
• CTA
• Stamp Taxes Practitioner's Group

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Dr. Patrick Mulcahy, FCA, CTA (Tax and Accounting Lecturer, Dublin City University and Tax Director, Financial Services Group, PwC).

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After finishing her A Levels, Juliet joined a small regional firm where she completed her AAT and ACA qualification before moving to a small firm in London where she became CTA qualified. While in practice she worked across the taxes and disciplines preparing accounts, auditing, VAT returns, corporate and personal tax, and work with trusts.

Juliet joined Tolley in 2017 having spent over 10 years with another well-known training provider. She teaches a range of subjects including Owner Managed Businesses and Inheritance Tax, Trusts and Estates.

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More than 18 years of experience in the analysis and preparation of financial information, providing advice and consulting on accounting, tax and financial matters; compliance with tax obligations, payroll preparation, tax recovery and representation before tax authorities. More than 10 years of experience in auditing and preparing federal, local and social security tax reports.

She has a degree in Accounting from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a specialty in Senior Management from the same institution.

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Gill is a compelling seminar, in house and conference speaker with a strong gift for making topics in private client practice practical, engaging, authoritative and informative.

Gill works as a consultant and trainer with a number of large and small legal firms. She ran her own practice providing a consultancy service to practitioners on issues concerning Wills, Probate, Trusts and Tax between 1996-2013.

In 2000 Gill set up LawSkills Ltd offering technical and skills training for the Private Client Practitioner complemented by a dedicated and active website www.lawskills.co.uk.

Gill is author of The Law Society's Trust Practitioner's Handbook, Consultant editor for Tolley's IHT & Trusts & Estates online service, a solicitor with an MBA in Legal Practice Management and a consultant with Blake Morgan.  She is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) UK Practice Committee and the Association of Taxation Technicians.

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I lead the delivery of international assignment and expatriate tax services to a wide range of clients from owner managed businesses through to large international not for profit organisations. I have presented at a number of industry seminars on expatriate tax and social security issues, such as the European Construction Industry Annual Conference, Payroll World Annual Conference, Expatriate Management and Global Mobility Conference and Tolley's Practical Employment Tax Conference. I am also a specialist contributer to the Tiley and Collison's UK 2013/14 UK Tax Guide.

I specialise in the full range of employer and employee issues associated with international mobility, including: international assignment policy and process development, international employer and employee compliance, international payroll, international share arrangements and pension issues, expatriate tax aspects of corporate inversions, tax equalisation, cost reduction, setting-up overseas operations, cross border moves for senior executives and international HR co-ordination across multiple countries.

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After studying accountancy at the LSE, Roderick changed to the law and became a solicitor, and, until 1996, headed pension and employment law in the corporate/commercial firm KJD in Stoke-on-Trent, as the only pension law solicitor between Birmingham and Manchester. In that year he started his sole practice from home, specialising in pensions, largely helping other solicitors when they have pension law problems and need a specialist on their team or to whom to refer their clients. Roderick also contributes to New Law Journal and other LexisNexis publications. His leisure time is split between gardening, old cars and reading and writing.

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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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Dean Wootten has been involved in tax training for many years and lectures on a wide variety of tax matters. Dean started his career as a Chartered Accountant, qualifying with Grant Thornton in 1988. Dean then spent two years overseas with KPMG before returning to a medium sized provincial firm in Sussex. Shortly after returning to the UK Dean qualified as an Associate of the Institute of Taxation in 1991.

Whilst in practice Dean gained valuable experience including five years at partner level. The experience gained enables Dean to focus his lecturing on the practical aspects of the issues presented.

Together with Chris Jones, Dean was a founder director of Online Tutors Limited, a company specialising in providing online CPD training. The company is responsible for the tax and accounting CPD update service at www.tolleyseminars.com, the tax learning product Tolley's Tax Tutor and the quarterly Tolley's VAT Update.

Dean is also the senior lecturer on the CTA VAT route at Tolley's and the EU VAT paper on the ADIT international tax exams.

Dean is a regular contributor to Taxation magazine where his articles have got a reputation for providing clear practical advice.

In 2014 Dean worked with the Bahamian Government in preparation for the introduction of VAT in the Bahamas from 1 January 2015

Trading as Wootten Consultants, Dean and Mike Thexton provide VAT consultancy advice to practitioners throughout the UK. Dean and Mike are uniquely placed to provide practical VAT advice to practitioners and clients in a very clear manner.

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Sten Günsel is a Partner at RSM Ebner Stolz with a core focus on international tax law and Global Employer Services for more than 20 years. As a qualified tax advisor and attorney-at-law, he provides strategic guidance to global corporations and expatriates on all questions relating to cross-border taxation, international assignment policies, and regulatory compliance. With a background in legal studies and certification as a specialist in international tax law, Sten combines legal proficiency with practical business insight to deliver holistic tax strategies for international clients.

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Halil
Vice President of Tax | Tax Lawyer | Author | Lecturer

With over 13 years of extensive tax experience across Europe and the Middle East, Halil has guided international companies through complex tax landscapes in Europe and the MENAP region. His career blends advisory expertise with nearly 5 years as an in-house tax advisor, where he provided strategic guidance and successfully implemented effective tax solutions.

Halil also spent 8 years working at Big 4 firms, KPMG and PwC, where he gained invaluable experience advising clients on a wide range of tax matters. This foundation helped him build a strong technical background and the ability to address complex tax challenges with confidence.

In his most recent role, Halil established and developed a comprehensive tax function in response to the UAE’s introduction of Corporate Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Pillar 2 rules. His work included designing compliance frameworks, optimizing corporate structures, and embedding tax processes into business operations. This hands-on approach showcases his ability to translate complex regulations into practical, actionable solutions.

Halil holds a Bachelor’s in Dutch Law, a Master’s in International and European Taxation (Direct Taxes) from the University of Amsterdam, and a Post Master’s in Indirect Taxes from Maastricht University. He is the author of Fundamentals of GCC VAT, a reference for tax professionals in over 20 countries, and is currently working on a new book in the Direct Tax space. Additionally, he lectures at Middlesex University Dubai and the University of Amsterdam.

Known for his thoughtful and collaborative approach, as well as his ability to build meaningful relationships, Halil is valued by peers and professionals across the UAE, GCC, and Europe.

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Petra is an Indirect Tax Manager at Protokorp d.o.o who principally advices on all aspects of VAT. She has MSc in law and BSc in economics. She has worked with various tax consultancy firms covering different types of taxes including corporate income tax and private individual taxation.

Petra advises businesses of all sizes as well as private individuals. She has experience in tax advising for many international companies from various industries.

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Neil has worked in VAT for 33 years. He spent 14 years as an inspector in HM Customs and Excise before setting up his own tax and accounting practice in 1997. He provides VAT consultancy advice for a range of chartered accountants in the south-east of England and also writes extensively on VAT for most of the leading tax publications in the UK, including Taxation and Tax Adviser. He has liaised closely with HMRC on many policy matters, particularly relating to the flat rate scheme, and is a member of the VAT technical committee of the ATT.

Neil won the Taxation Awards Tax Writer of the Year in 2008, having been shortlisted the previous year. He is a fellow member of both the CIOT and AAT and also a member of the ATT. He was on the national CPD speaking circuit for eight years until his retirement in 2014.