Partner - Tax

Brett’s experience in the Australian, UK and New Zealand markets has enhanced his expertise across a broad range of corporate and international taxation issues. Brett advises a number of significant corporate groups with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, including acquisitions and disposals by tax consolidated groups.

Brett’s recent assignments include:

• advising shareholders in respect of private equity investments, partial exit, presale restructuring and post-acquisition structuring issues
• advising multinational groups on inbound investment and centralising of intellectual property ownership within the corporate group structure
• managing the tax affairs of biotech companies across a range of tax issues, including R&D, tax loss carried forward, employee share schemes and transfer pricing

Brett’s expertise extends over a diverse number of industry sectors including technology, food & beverage and energy & resources.