Practice Areas:
General corporate tax
Jurisdictions:
Biography
Tom has more than 25 years EMEA and APAC Corporate International senior tax leadership experience, building & leading tax & accounting teams in professional services & large multinational groups.
Tom is the head of the Global International Accounting & Tax Compliance product & Advisory Solutions practice at Vistra, leading teams responsible for the provision of timely & quality accounting & tax compliance & advice to high growth businesses and multinational corporations.
Recent matter highlights
- Advised on and implemented global corporate entity restructure/reorganisation and rationalisation project - saving the global group thousands of dollars in pre and post tax efficiencies.
- Led a team that implemented global transfer pricing supply chain mapping and documentation process, including provision of Master File and Local Files, incorporating functional analysis and benchmarking.
- Negotiated the settlement of simultaneous, multi-jurisdictional tax authority reviews and audits for a large global corporate group—securing no penalties or interest and guaranteeing future certainty through an APA.
- Delivered technology-enabled global compliance services across accounting and tax, ensuring full and timely compliance throughout a global corporate group.
Key practice areas
- Compliance management: Cross-border project management, IP management
- Corporate tax matters: APAs, Corporate taxes, Cost-sharing arrangements, Environmental, M&A, Restructuring, Technology, Transactions, Value chains
- Dispute resolution: Arbitration, Audit defence, Audit support, Controversy management, Dispute resolution, MAPs/ADRs, Pre-litigation
- Indirect tax: GST, Supply chainс, VAT
- Tax advisory: International tax advisory, Tax consulting, US inbound, US outbound
- Transfer pricing: Audit defence, Audit support, Business model optimisation, Business restructuring, Controversy management, Cross-border project management, Dispute resolution, International tax planning, IP management, TP risk management
Sector expertise
- Accounting
- Construction and materials
- Consumer goods and services
- Energy
- Food and beverage
- Gaming
- Healthcare
- Media
- Natural resources
- Pharmaceutical and life sciences
- Real estate
- Technology and telecommunications
- Tourism
- Transport
Academic qualifications
- BA Hons History, Durham University, UK, 1994
- FCA - ICAEW, ICAEW, 2002
FCA - ACA, ACA, 2006 - MTax, University of Sydney, 2012
