Deloitte's tax practice consists of 22 partners and over 170 other tax professionals. The team is led by Thomas Pippos. The international tax practice is led by Teresa Farac. The firm has appointed six associate directors in the last 12 months including ...
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Deloitte's tax practice consists of 22 partners and over 170 other tax professionals. The team is led by Thomas Pippos. The international tax practice is led by Teresa Farac. The firm has appointed six associate directors in the last 12 months including Erica Vogel from the Inland Revenue Service. The firm advises on indirect tax, international tax, national tax, M&A, tax policy, R&D and transfer pricing.
The firm had three teams acting for three separate bidders seeking to acquire Frucor in a deal worth $820 million. The teams included the head of the transaction practice Stephen Condor, Darren White, Pippos, Donald Wong, Andrew Button and Steve Thompson. The firm also had three separate teams advising two separate bidders, including the successful bidder, in the $328 million acquisition of a 58% stake in PowerCo. Pippos and Wong advised the successful bidder in the acquisition of BP's Southwest Pacific downstream assets. The firm is acting for a bidder to acquire AIG's material New Zealand assets.
Deloitte is the global tax adviser for New Zealand's largest investment group, Rank Group. The firm advised the company on the acquisition of Alcoa's global packaging and consumer group business. It also advised the company on the public takeover of SIG Holding and the acquisition of Blue Ridge Products. Rank Group's foreign acquisitions cost $3.5 billion in the last 12 months.
The firm is also the global tax adviser for Fletcher Building and advised them on the acquisition of Formica for $1 billion. The firm acts as lead tax adviser for Contact Energy and advised on its domestic bond offer.
The indirect tax practice is lead by Allan Bullôt who specialises in GST. The firm has one of the largest transfer pricing practices in New Zealand. The practice is led by Diana Maitland and is 14 people strong. They advise a number of high profile clients.
The firm's R&D team has 15 advisers in it and includes partners Aaron Thom, Peter Felstead and Andrew Babbage. This team also advises a number of high profile clients.
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