Dmitry Zapol

Tax Advisor, IFS Consultants

Dmitry Zapol is an international tax advisor with practical knowledge of the principles of individual and corporate international taxation and cross-border business planning. He joined IFS in September 2010 after earning his LLM (Tax) degree at King’s College, London. Five years prior to this, Dmitry earned his LLB at Durham University and completed an LPC at the College of Law. Dmitry is a qualified Russian lawyer — he came to the UK from Moscow, where for five years he worked as an associate at Moscow City Bar Association "Barshchevsky & Partners". Dmitry specialised in advising foreign investors exploring opportunities in Russia on corporate tax implications together with Russian and cross-border tax planning. Dmitry holds the Advanced Diploma in International Tax and is studying to become a CTA.

Marina Belyakova

Partner, Ernst Young

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Ashley Crossley

Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Ashley Crossley is chair of the Firm’s Europe and Middle East Wealth Management Practice Group as well as head of the Wealth Management Department in the London office. He is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Global Wealth Management Steering Committee and coordinating partner for the Firm’s global banking relationships. He also heads the Firm's Russia/CIS practice. He is recognized as a leader in his area of practice by Legal 500, Citywealth and Chambers Global. Ashley frequently speaks at external conferences and seminars, and is the editor of STEP's Russia/CIS directory. Ashley is qualified as a barrister and solicitor.

Mark Davies

Managing Director, Mark Davies & Associates Ltd

Mark established Mark Davies & Associates Ltd in 2007 to focus on the movement of individuals and their capital (in particular entrepreneurs and non-domiciled persons who are resident in the UK) and to provide tax advice on complex structures, particularly those involving offshore trusts and companies.

Mark trained with a ‘Big 4’ firm in Guernsey, and in 1997 became a Chartered Tax Adviser. Mark has over 20 years of experience giving proactive tax advice with a personal touch. He has specialised in providing individually tailored creative tax solutions to individual clients and their families in order to preserve their wealth for future generations. Prior to setting up the company, he was a private client partner heading up the personal tax team at a top 10 firm in London.

His main interests include tax planning for non UK domiciled persons pre-immigration, tax planning for non-UK domiciled persons (and for their ‘toys’ – yachts, jets etc.) while they are resident in the UK, in-bound investment in UK real estate and businesses through offshore structures, and UK investors investing abroad.

He has regularly lectured on the subjects of residence and domicile. He is a co-author of chapters on Tax Planning for Non-UK Domiciled People, Non Residents Investing in the UK, and Tax Planning using Trusts which are published in Tolley’s Tax Planning.

Sergey Gerasimov

Senior Partner, ALTHAUS Group

Sergey is the Senior Partner of ALTHAUS GROUP and has vast experience of advisory on the RF tax and customs law, transfer pricing, international taxation, business structuring, due diligence.
 
Prior to joining ALTHAUS over 5 years worked with BDO – one of the biggest Russian audit and consulting companies, where managed tax review projects (tax audits, due diligence), tax advisory for inbound investments and structuring business in Russia, outbound
investments, restructuring, development of tax methodology and procedures.
 
Sergey specializes in tax reviews of companies, tax planning, personal tax issues, as well as in transfer pricing projects.

Ana Castro Gonçalves

Partner, Franco Caiado Guerreiro & Associados

Ana Castro Gonçalves joined the firm in 2002, being partner since 2009. She is a member of and coordinates the tax teams: Tax and Tax Restructuring and Tax Litigation, Administrative Law and Public Procurement. Ana Castro Gonçalves worked in tax planning, assisted in corporate restructuring, real estate, insurance and financial and industrial areas and is also experienced in national and international, direct and indirect taxation consultancy involving personal income tax and corporate income tax, customs duties, stamp duty and VAT, in transfer pricing and double taxation treaties, having provided assistance to operations carried out by national and multinational companies, as well as having represented national and international companies in tax litigation related to the administrative and judicial discussion of several tax law matters. Ana Castro Gonçalves has developed her professional activity in different areas of Administrative Law and Environmental Law, namely focusing on public procurement, administrative litigation, expropriations and regulation.Ana Castro Gonçalves assisted several clients in public procurement (contracting authorities and competitors), environmental incidence assessment procedures, environmental and industrial permits procedures, and also in environmental responsibility, environmental tax and environmental administrative offenses and pre-litigation and environmental proceedings. Ana Castro Gonçalves is considered by Chambers and Partners as a "leader in the field" in the area of tax.

Mike Luckett

Principal at Shipeys LLP

Mike is responsible for the day-to-day running of Shipleys’ two tax departments in London and Godalming. His key focus is on private clients including expatriates and non-UK domiciliaries, more complicated UK tax planning, cross-border tax advice and HM Revenue & Customs tax investigations. As a former HMRC Officer he is well aware of the procedure from the other side of the fence.

Mike previously worked for HM Revenue & Customs before joining a predecessor firm of Shipleys in 1979. He was made a principal in 1998.

He is an Associate member of the of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Yann Mrazek

Managing Partner, M/HQ

Yann is the Managing Partner of M/HQ, a Dubai based multi-services platform primarily providing for the needs of successful individuals and wealthy international families.  He chiefly focuses on private wealth, tax and immigration practice and is regularly solicited as a speaker on these themes.

Yann has vast experience advising successful individuals and entrepreneurial families with Middle Eastern exposure on implementing inter-generational wealth transfer strategies and structuring their operational assets and global wealth.  He notably advises on mitigating exposure to mandatory local ownership rules in Middle East corporate vehicles and complying with Shariah succession principles.

Yann is the Chair of STEP Arabia and the sole Attorney in the Middle East referenced on the Who's Who's Private clients list.

Mark Rovinsky

Counsel, Ivanyan & Partners

Mark focuses on asset and capital restructurings for private clients, tax aspects of M&A transactions, private and public corporate restructurings and tax dispute resolution.

Mark acted as a key tax expert in various projects involving the restructuring of major Russian mining companies, companies from heavy industry, real estate construction, financial and trading spheres. Mark participated in the settlement of a number of precedent tax disputes and acted as an expert in drafting Russian deoffshorization legislation.

Mark is a member of the International Fiscal Association and the European Confederation of Tax Consultants (Confédération Fiscale Européenne).

Evgeny Timofeev

Senior Partner, Goltsblat

Evgeny Timofeev, Partner, joined Berwin Leighton Paisner in July 2011 to lead the firm’s growing Russian/CIS (Goltsblat BLP) Tax Practice.

Evgeny is highly regarded in the Russian legal community. In 2017, for the second year in a row, Evgeny has been listed among Leading Lawyers in the field of tax in Russia, which is the most prestigious tier in the Legal 500 EMEA rankings. Chambers & Partners 2017 ranks him in the first tier as one of six "highly recommended" tax lawyers in Russia. It is also mentioned that "Evgeny is a stellar tax litigator in Russia: he is one of the best in the market. He's very logical and very creative."

Evgeny Timofeev was selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Russia 2009 - 2017 in the field of Tax Law. In 2015 Evgeny has been also recommended as one of the Tax Controversy Leaders in Russia by the International Tax Review.

In 2011 Evgeny received the “Lawyer of the Year” Alumni Award (awarded once in a year to the only one of the graduates of all years) from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), which is considered one of the Top 3 Russian law schools.

With the Tax Practice headed by Evgeny Timofeev, Goltsblat BLP has been ranked as the 1st tier law firm in Russia according to The World’s Leading Transactional Firms ranking by The International Tax Review Magazine (Euromoney, March 2012).

Evgeny provides a broad range of contentious and non-contentious tax advice to global corporates, local companies and financial institutions as well as represents them in tax disputes. 

Roustam Vakhitov

Managing Partner, International Tax Associates

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José Vázquez

Partner, Garrigues

José Manuel Vázquez has been partner of the Tax Department of Garrigues since 1999, where he has pursued his professional career after a period at Arthur Andersen. He specializes in Tax Law, especially in relation to advisory services in the Private Equity, Telecommunications, Real Estate Groups and Services sectors.

For the last fifteen years, he has advised on many of the most important private equity transactions carried out in Spain, making him a lawyer of choice in the sector.

He specializes in the analysis and planning of investment and divestment structures and corporate reorganizations (mergers, divisions and contributions). He regularly participates in company acquisitions and transfers, in business group restructurings and in acquisition structures. 

He has also garnered extensive experience in tax planning of wealth and inheritance, in advice on the reorganization of family groups and, in general, in advice on legal and tax issues to family businesses and high net worth individuals. In this area, he also collaborates frequently with the main Spanish and foreign private banking entities.

He is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and of the Madrid Economists Association.

Roy Saunders

Founder and Chairman, IBSA

Since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1967, Roy Saunders has accumulated a wealth of commercial experience working independently in commercial property, international tax, advertising and other industries. He is the Chairman of IFS, a boutique international tax practice based in central London. Academically, he is known throughout the world for his many books and publications, the foremost being his red book, International Tax Systems & Planning Techniques published by Sweet & Maxwell. Roy has also taught an MA Course on International Taxation at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London.

Roy is very proud of the fascinating client base of entrepreneurial individuals that he has built up at IFS. He feels strongly about the role that ethical tax structuring plays in the growth of an economy, and that this needs to be better understood by the public at large. Roy founded the IBSA to enable business professionals around the world to discover new business relationships and promote best practice by creating sustainable business structures compliant with international transparency, corporate governance and social responsibility.

Walter Andreoni

Partner, Mercanti e Associati

Walter Andreoni joined the Studio as a partner in 2017 and deals with all areas of tax law, including in particular corporation taxation, international taxation, transfer prices and Community VAT.

After completing his degree in Economics at the University of Turin, Walter specializes in attending Master's (LL.M.) International Tax Law at the University of Leiden, Netherlands and has worked for several years with Studio Maisto e Associati.

He is a lecturer in primary post-university specialization courses on international taxation issues, author of tax publications and rapporteur at national and international conferences.

Aliasghar Kanani

Tax Partner, LE/AX Avocats

Aliasghar Kanani is a tax partner with LE/AX. His favorite field of activity is Swiss and International corporate tax law, which covers varied topics, such as international tax planning for multinationals and SMEs, group and financial restructurings. He also advises high net worth individuals on Swiss and international tax planning aspects, as well as non-profit organizations.

Following his graduation in Swiss Law, he obtained a Master of Advanced Studies in business law (MBL). In order to complete this Master degree, he wrote a thesis on “Merger and its tax treatment”. He completed an LL.M. in International Taxation, during which he specialized in Swiss and International Business taxation and wrote a thesis on “IP restructurings”.

Aliasghar Kanani teaches corporate taxation at the High School Arc, Bachelor in Business Law www.he-arc.ch/gestion/bachelor/droit-economique/, member of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO), as well as at the CAS in taxation of SMEs at the University of Neuchâtel, Law Faculty www.unine.ch/droit/home/formations/formation_continue/cas-en-fiscalite-des-pme.html. In addition, he is a regular speaker at the University of Lausanne, for WEKA Business Media AG and various organizations of which he is an active member. He is also the author of various publications on tax law, in particular in specialized magazines such as Tax News International (TNI) in the USA and for various professional associations.

He has been an active member of the Tax Law Commission of the Association International of Youngs Lawyers (AIJA, www.aija.org), for which he has been the annual national reporter since 2009. He received the Past President Award for his 2009 national report on "Thin capitalization regulations and similar tax limitations on leveraged buy-outs". Finally, he is a member of the International Tax Specialist Group (www.itsgnetwork.com), the International Business Structuring Association (www.theibsa.org) and the Private Client Dining Club (www.pcd.club), as well as the Geneva Bar Association (www.odage.ch) and the International Bar Association (www.ibanet.org). Aliasghar Kanani is fluent in French, English, Hindi/Urdu and Gujarati.