Independent. Senior. Execution-focused.

This practice is built on more than 20 years of international tax and legal experience, accumulated across senior in-house roles in the UAE and GCC, and earlier international work across Africa, Europe and South America.

The practice's primary expertise lies in UAE and GCC tax implementation: the design, delivery and handover of the operating models, governance frameworks, systems integration and compliance architecture that businesses need to function in a controlled and sustainable way under UAE Corporate Tax, VAT, e-invoicing and transfer pricing requirements.

The most substantive in-house experience was as Group Head of Tax for a major diversified UAE conglomerate with businesses spanning automotive, real estate, construction, financial services and trading. That role involved leading the greenfield implementation of UAE Corporate Tax and e-invoicing, integrating tax logic into SAP and the group's wider ERP environment, developing group-wide tax policies and governance frameworks, and engaging directly with the UAE Federal Tax Authority.

Prior to that, the practice's principal held group tax leadership responsibility for an international industrial distribution group with revenues exceeding US$1.4 billion, more than 3,000 employees and operations in 12 countries. That role included designing and implementing a global transfer pricing framework, managing the group Master File, Local Files and CbCR obligations, and leading OECD Pillar 2 readiness across the group.

Earlier international experience included complex tax work in the energy sector across Africa, Europe and South America — including government negotiations, tax audits, major project structuring and M&A transactions.

The practice operates on an independent, project-based model. Each engagement is scoped against a defined need and delivered with the objective of leaving the client with a sustainable internal capability — not continued external dependency.