TP success requires tight internal relations, in-house experts say

Tom Baker

October 02 2025

TP Europe 2025 business restructuring panel — Left to right: Lars Jernkrok (TP partner at Grant Thornton Sweden), Mark van der Lelij (group head of tax at myPOS), Charles Marais (head of TP at Grant Thornton), Oleksii Sorokin, (TP manager at DTEK Group) and Ciaran Prendeville (TP lead at Lloyds Banking Group)

TP managers must be able to explain technical issues in simple terms, ITR’s European Transfer Pricing Forum heard

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Tom is editor of ITR. He joined the team in October 2023 after stints as a legal journalist and a content professional at an international law firm.

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