Biography:

Claire started tutoring students whilst at University studying for a Maths degree.

She joined Deloitte in 2003 where she worked in the Expatriate Tax team dealing with secondments to and from the UK. Whilst working at Deloitte, Claire studied both ATT and CTA and also continued to tutor GCSE/A Level maths students in her spare time.

Given her love of tax and teaching, after qualifying for CTA Claire joined BPP where she trained students in ATT, CTA, ICAEW,ACCA and AAT qualifications. She was also involved in producing materials for the ATT and CTA courses.

Claire is known for bringing her wacky methods into classrooms and in June 2009 she had her maths notes published into a GCSE textbook 'Maths the Wacky Way'. Claire also has popular videos on YouTube to assist maths students.

In early 2011, she joined the Tolley Exam Training team and teaches across the CTA and ATT qualifications in our London venue. Claire is also head of our online courses, looking after the OTL courses and the Tolley Academy.

Biography:

A corporate tax partner, Cathy is part of Mercer & Hole's team of business tax specialists providing assistance and support to clients across the firm.

All business clients are concerned about their tax burden and, with her team, Cathy offers guidance to business owners and directors across all relevant taxes. This not only involves guiding clients through the complexities of compliance but also looking at some of the more interesting aspects of corporate tax, for example, in relation to business transactions, the structuring of a business, incorporation, research and development (R&D) tax credits and employee share schemes. She therefore provides vital planning support and helps clients to minimise the tax burden for their business.

Cathy has a wealth of experience in the area of business transactions, particularly regarding company re-organisations, demergers, acquisitions, disposals, flotations and take-privates. However, Cathy also assists clients with the personal taxes that affect business owners, for example, regarding succession planning, IHT and capital gains tax planning.

Cathy has contributed chapters on: Selling a company, Buying a company and Franchising for Tolley's Tax Planning and is a regular writer for the firm's SME Plus blog and client newsletters.

An avid football fan, Cathy spends much of her spare time supporting Arsenal both at home and away fixtures.

Biography:

Reinout de Boer is a partner in Stibbe’s Amsterdam tax practice group who specialises in domestic and international taxation with an emphasis on M&A, private equity transactions and corporate reorganisations. He heads the Dutch tax controversy practice of Stibbe and advises in a wide range of (international) tax litigation cases.

Biography:

Hafiz Choudhury works with Ministries of Finance and tax administrations worldwide on economic, tax and budget policy through his firm,
The M Group, Inc.; he also advises select private sector clients on tax policy matters.

He has contributed since 2012 to the design of international tax norms at the UN Committee of Experts on Taxation and is e.g. the general editor of the UN Transfer Pricing Manual (all 3 editions) and the UN Extractives Taxation Handbook (second edition).

He leads the work on guidance on tax policy for energy transition and has worked with UNDP on tax issues in energy transition in more than 20 countries. He advises a software business that builds international tax and trade decision support, modelling and analysis tools (www.reganalytics.com) and is an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University Law School, teaching transfer pricing and international tax risk modules for the international tax LLM program.

Hafiz has worked in tax policy and administration issues in the UK, India, Seychelles, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Thailand, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Qatar, Latvia and China. He started his career with HM Board of Inland Revenue in the UK as an FT Inspector in 1987; he was then with the IBFD in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in technical and managerial roles from 1993 to 2006.

Biography:

Callum advises on all aspects of employee incentives and executive compensation, including in relation to private equity, investment agreements, management incentive plans and structuring. He has a significant transactional practice, and frequently advises on the impact of transactions on employee share plans and management incentives, including in the context of public M&A and other public market transactions. Many of his clients have international operations, and Callum has a wealth of experience on cross-border employee incentives, including the successful establishment and operation of international employee share and cash plans.

Callum contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

Biography:

Mala is a Chartered Tax Adviser and non-practising Solicitor and Accountant. She trained with a top ten professional services firm where she worked in the tax investigations department and gained experience in a wide range of personal and corporate taxes. She joined the tax investigations team at a boutique tax consultancy and developed her portfolio before moving to a tax investigations firm.

Mala specialises in preparation of disclosures to HMRC and resolution of tax enquiries and CoP8 and 9 Investigations. She has experience in a range of situations – self-employment, property, owner managed businesses, non-UK domiciled individuals – and taxes; direct income taxes as well as PAYE, VAT and SDLT.

She is a well-known tax author, having had several articles published by the professional press including Taxation Magazine, Bloomsbury Professional and Tax Adviser. She also regularly lectures online and in person for the CIOT, AAT, ICAEW and CIMA, including at CIOT and CIMA conferences.

Mala was a finalist in the “Best Rising Star in Tax” category as part of Tolleys Taxation Awards 2020. The Awards are known for identifying excellence in tax. Being shortlisted for the award demonstrates Mala’s commitment to the tax profession as well as her technical excellence as supported by testimonials from clients and other tax experts.

Mala founded the London Tax Society in 2017 and actively encourages networking and technical development for young professionals.

To contact Mala, please email: mala@londontaxnetwork.co.uk or call 0203 953 6660.

Biography:

Andrea is a Professional Support Lawyer in the Tax team at Herbert Smith Freehills. Andrea is responsible for keeping clients and those within the firm up to date with the latest legal developments, including new case law and changes to legislation and practice in tax law, principally through the provision of training and drafting publications. Andrea's practice area covers all aspects of tax law, including corporate, real estate, finance and disputes tax. Andrea also contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

Biography:

I am a senior tax consultant in Menzies Private Client team. My work involves a lot of international clients moving in and out of the UK, particularly from Europe, the US and Australia. The advice is from both an individual and employer context, advising on employer obligations plus the application of the remittance basis and overseas workday relief.

Another area I do a lot of work in is Inheritance tax and succession planning in general.

In addition to the normal array of OMB clients I work with a lot of people in the property sector, barristers and new tech start-ups.

Biography:

Ms. F. S. N. Marikkar FCA is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. She is the governor of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Sri Lanka Chapter and a member of the Student Training & Development Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. She is experienced in conducting due diligence reviews, internal audits, statutory audits and BPO assignments. Her portfolio of clients includes companies involved in international transportation and multinational manufacturing, and service organizations. She is an author of the Sri Lanka country guide for Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes.

Biography:

Andrew Rainford BA (Hons) CTA ATT is a Tax Advisor, author and editor living in North Wales, specialising in advising private clients and other advisers. He has a particular interest in advising Owner Managed Businesses, families and HNW individuals. Andrew trained and qualified with a boutique firm of accountants based in London, before taking over the operation of the tax department of a smaller firm in North Wales, whilst regularly contributing to various professional tax publications. Andrew also previously worked on EY's personal tax consultancy team. Andrew can be contacted at andrew@reddragontax.co.uk.

Biography:

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

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:

Radek is a team leader of APOGEO Indirect Tax team.

Radek specializes in VAT with five years’ experience of advising small and medium size companies on various VAT matters. His sector expertise includes cross-border VAT issues, real estate development, Healthcare Sector and nonprofit organizations.

Radek and his team are ensuring that APOGEO clients are always VAT compliant providing a wide range of related services such as tax memorandums, due diligence and internal audits, VAT registrations etc.

Biography:

Kamala Richardson-Deal is a Senior Associate at Glinton Sweeting O’Brien, with over a decade of experience in trusts and fiduciary structures wealth management, financial services, and regulatory law. She regularly advises high-net-worth individuals, banks, trust companies, and family offices on complex fiduciary structures, and other wealth planning vehicles across jurisdictions. Kamala brings expertise in the Bahamian FATCA, CRS, and Economic Substance regimes, alongside significant experience guiding financial institutions on legal risk management. She has also advised on corporate restructurings and cross-border financing transactions, further strengthening her breadth of practice.

She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2012 and to the Bahamas Bar in 2013. Kamala holds an LLB in Law and Business Administration from the University of Kent, completed the Bar Professional Training Course at Northumbria University, and earned her LLM from the University of Swansea, where she graduated with the highest marks in her class.

Kamala regularly conducts training sessions on trust administration, CRS/FATCA compliance, and AML/CFT regulations. She has presented at major industry conferences and events, including STEP and the Bahamas Association of Compliance Officers. Additionally, she authored a white paper proposing various amendments to The Bahamas’ Trustee Act, which led to trust law reform in 2016.

Biography:

Former Payroll and Expenses manager for the Daily Telegraph. Former head of Payroll Alliance responsible for the delivery of payroll training courses, 7 BTEC payroll qualifications and subscribed membership. Representing members on government panels for over 20 years.

She was the first editor of Payroll World magazine (now Reward Strategy).

Member of the Reward 300 2020 and an associate member of the British Computer Society. Regular contributor to Taxation magazine on RTI and payroll issues.

Updating author of the Payroll Fact File for 30 years.

Winner of the Strathearn Award for Lifetime Achievement 2009.

Currently specialising in payroll training and consultancy.

Biography:

Shanzé has recently joined Old Square Tax Chambers as a barrister advising in all areas of tax. Shanzé has worked on various income tax and corporation tax matters. She has also worked on issues involving SDLT, VAT and domicile. She contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

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Biography:

Sunny is an International Tax and Transfer Pricing expert with over 18 years of experience. He has advised clients across a wide range of industries, including Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics, Financial Services, Software, FMCG, and Consumer Electronics.

Sunny has extensive experience guiding clients on transfer pricing policies, including three-tier documentation, benchmarking analysis, Advance Pricing Agreements, and audit or litigation matters.

Before Co-founding TPNOMIX, Sunny held positions at Aibidia, PwC, and KPMG.

He has authored or co-authored three books and published over 100 articles on tax and transfer pricing in leading publications such as LexisNexis, IBFD, and TaxNotes International.

Sunny is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce.