PEOPLE PROFILES

Tax

• taxation and (local and international)
  • corporate tax planning and advice
  • opinions
• restructuring of corporate entities
• share incentive schemes
• offshore structures and financing
• VAT
• estate planning
• wills and trusts
• exchange control

2002: Director, Werksmans Tax (Pty) Ltd
Head of Tax practice area

• Past chairman of the Taxation Committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
• Member of the Institute’s Exchange Control Committee
• South African correspondent of the Bulletin for International Taxation published by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD)
• Listed in the Tax Directors Handbook (2008)
• Listed in the International Tax Review’s World Tax (2011)
  
• Nominated by in-house counsel and peers as a pre-eminent practitioner in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisers (2008)
• Named as a leading specialist in:
• Corporate (2008 – 2009), Tax (2008 - 2010) and Trusts & Estates (2009 and 2010) by Best Lawyers International
• Tax by Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (2007 - 2012)
• Named as a leading lawyer in the speciality of Corporate Tax by the International Who’s Who Legal (2010 and 2011)
• Named as a recommended lawyer in Tax by the Legal500 (2010)
• Named as a recommended (2010) and endorsed (2011) specialist in Tax by PLC Which Lawyer
• Named as a leading expert in Legal Media Group's Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers (2008)