Gulf Cooperation Council

International Tax Review is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Gulf Cooperation Council

peake.jpg

 

Robert Peake

The Cragus Group

Level 19, H Dubai Office Tower

No.1 Sheikh Zayed Road

Dubai 71985

United Arab Emirates

Tel: +971 4 705 0310

Email: rpeake@cragus.com

Website: www.cragus.com

Robert has been a strategic adviser to businesses and investors in the Middle East for more than 20 years. He has advised on: how to do business in the Middle East region; assisting both Middle East investors wishing to globalise their activities and foreign investors coming into the region; developing tax policies and strategies; managing tax risks and maximising return by reducing tax liabilities.

Robert has advised both government and taxpayers on tax controversy matters and has project-managed cross-border litigation on behalf of his clients. Robert has served as expert witness for the state of Alaska on the taxation of hydrocarbon production in Abu Dhabi. He has advised a leading sovereign wealth fund in respect to litigation matters. He has served as a member of the UAE Free Trade Agreements negotiation team, with particular responsibility for matters relating to investment and dispute settlement. He represented the UAE as a member of the drafting committee of Sovereign Wealth Funds' International Working Group that concluded the Santiago Principles; and served as an appointed observer to the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds and sat on its subcommittee that dealt with issues related to the international investment environment and recipient country relationships.

Robert has been a senior adviser to various Abu Dhabi government investment institutions since 1994 and has spent more than 14 years with EY and Arthur Andersen, based in London, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Dubai, including serving as tax partner for the Lower Gulf.

Robert is recognised by Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisers, and International Tax Review's World Tax global rankings, and he continues to be a board member of the GCC branch of the International Fiscal Association. Robert is chairman of the board of directors of The Cragus Group Limited and divides his time between the Cragus Dubai and Kuwait offices.

cragus-250.jpg

Talal Al Naser

KPMG

Rasheed Al-Qenae

KPMG

Ebrahim Baeshen

KPMG

Ashok Hariharan

KPMG

Mubeen Khadir

KPMG

Zubair Patel

KPMG

Ganesh Ramanath

KPMG

Craig Richardson

KPMG

Mark Stevens

Cragus

more across site & shared bottom lb ros

More from across our site

ITR’s data has highlighted the US firm’s ambition to become America’s ‘premier’ tax player via a concerted partner recruitment strategy
Jaap Zwaan’s arrival continues a recent streak of A&M Tax investing in the region; in other news, the US and Japan struck a deal that significantly lowered tariff rates
In a world where international tax concepts rely on human activity, Leonard Wagenaar poses existential questions about the future of such ideas when AI is ever-present
France v Axa provides a practical illustration of how the burden of proof is applied in TP matters under French law, ITR also heard
In an exclusive interview with ITR, Ian Gary calls for a central public CbCR database and bemoans the US’s lack of involvement in international tax transparency
Reckitt Benckiser is to divest its Essential Home business, which includes more than 70 brands, to private equity firm Advent International
In the first of a new series of weekly opinion pieces, ITR Editor Tom Baker reflects on the OECD’s attempts to sanitise the US’s brazen pillar two negotiations
The threat of 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods coincides with new Brazilian legal powers to adopt retaliatory economic measures, local experts tell ITR
The country’s chancellor appears to have backtracked from previous pillar two scepticism; in other news, Donald Trump threatened Russia with 100% tariffs
In its latest G20 update, the OECD also revealed tense discussions with the US where the ‘significant threat’ of Section 899 was highlighted
Gift this article