FACULTY OF LAW

MSC IN TAXATION PROFILES CLASS OF 2018/19 ALI ALQADHI KUWAIT [email protected] BOARD MEMBER, IPT-FAM ESPAÑA HOLDINGS, SPAIN Harris College ANALYST, BOUBYAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT COMPANY, MSc in Taxation Profile A Arabic KUWAIT EDUCATION CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS BUSINESS SCHOOL, UK, MASTERS IN FINANCE Class of 2018/19 Asset management; M&A; taxation of corporate finance; (07/2016) wealth management and planning; financial strategy; KUWAIT , KUWAIT, BBA (MAJOR: FINANCE) taxation of global wealth; transfer pricing; VAT; equity and (06/2010) debt capital markets; private equity EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA); President of the Finance VICE PRESIDENT, KUWAIT INVESTMENT OFFICE, UK INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME Club in Kuwait University (2009–2010) Managing European large-cap utilities and UK mid-cap equities portfolios After a very strong and exciting second year of the MSc in he Oxford MSc in Taxation is a two-year part-time Taxation, the Law Faculty and the Centre for Business Taxation postgraduate degree offered by the Oxford University welcome the third cohort of students onto the MSc in Taxation in TFaculty of Law, and is taught in association with the September 2018. Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation based at Saïd DINA AYDAEVA RUS SIAN FEDERATION Business School. [email protected] ASSOCIATE, BAKER & MCKENZIE, RUSSIA We are delighted to have an excellent group of students from a Christ Church wide range of countries and with different backgrounds including Unusual among Taxation degrees, the MSc in Taxation has Advising on various aspects of Russian and international Russian, German, French taxation both for corporate and individual clients, including law, accountancy, economics and finance. This diversity is been designed by a combination of lawyers and economists. deal structuring, TP issues, VAT, wealth management and The teaching is carried out by a team of leading tax academics EDUCATION certain to be a strength of the programme and will enhance your estate planning experience at Oxford. This profile book showcases your diverse and practitioners. An element of interdisciplinarity runs MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS and impressive profiles. through the whole degree and, in addition, its in-built flexibility (MGIMO), RUSSIA, LLB (06/2011) PUBLICATIONS allows students to tailor their studies to their individual Distinction Aydaeva, D. ‘Automatic exchange of information on We look forward to working with you on this new degree course. preferences. financial accounts (in Russian)’, Corporate lawyer, 2016 MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Anzhela Cédelle, Michael Devereux, Judith Freedman, Glen Aydaeva, D. ‘Requirements of FATCA and Russian The increased focus on taxation by politicians and the media, (MGIMO), RUSSIA, LLM INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL legislation: contradictions and gaps (in Russian)’, Legal Loutzenhiser & John Vella, Faculty members as well as the ever-increasing technical demands of the LAW (06/2013) work in credit organizations, 2015 Distinction subject and the pace of change at an international level, means Aydaeva, D. ‘Role of the Parliament in formation of the UK that there has never been a more important time to study tax system (in Russian)’, Taxes and taxation, 2015 MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS taxation from a range of perspectives. This is the experience (MGIMO), RUSSIA, POST-GRADUATE PROGRAMME, CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS that the Oxford MSc in Taxation offers. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL LAW (08/2017) Cross-border tax planning and structuring; wealth management; estate planning; taxation in common law EMPLOYMENT jurisdictions; history of law INTERN, BAKER & MCKENZIE, RUSSIA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Working on various Russian and international taxation PhD in Law (2018) matters

RAFHAEL ROMERO BENTOS BR AZIL [email protected] investments; capital markets and defences before the St Hugh’s College Administrative Federal Court (CARF) B Portuguese STUDENTS TAX ASSOCIATE, MUNDIE ADVOGADOS, BRAZIL % EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS CLASS SIZE COMING UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO, SÃO PAULO, MASTER 33 FROM WORK 86 DEGREE IN ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL LAW AND Bentos, R R. ‘Non-Cumulative of State-VAT for the TAXATION (STRICTO SENSU) (03/2017) Services Providers – Transport and Communications’, Book, 2018 Thesis recommended for publication Bentos, R R. Ferraz, L F. ‘LGBT+ rights: What role should PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO, Latin American Law Firms play?’, Latin Lawyer, 2017 BRAZIL, (01/2013) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS AGE RANGE Graduated in top 5% of class; awarded a fully-funded International taxation; banking and finance law; M&A scholarship ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMPLOYMENT NATIONALITIES AVERAGE AGE Teaching assistant at Universidade de São Paulo; 19 21–56 33 TAX ASSOCIATE, MATTOS FILHO, VEIGA FILHO, MARREY International Bar Association (IBA): Latin America Officer JR E QUIROGA ADVOGADOS, BRAZIL at the LGBTI Committee; Co-Chair of #mfriendly (LGBT+ Tax issues regarding banking and finance transactions affinity group at Mattos Filho) (local and international); M&A; transfer pricing; double Disclaimer: This profile book has been compiled from the submissions of the individuals represented in the book, who are solely responsible for the accuracy of the information taxation avoidance agreements; structuring foreign they have provided. While this information is believed to be accurate, it is made available without any responsibility on the part of the , which makes no representations about its veracity.

2 MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2018/19 WWW.LAW.OX.AC.UK/MSCTAX 3 SARAH BLAKELOCK A USTRALIA JOEL EMERY UK, AUSTRALIA [email protected] PUBLICATIONS [email protected] Researching legal and regulatory issues in cryptocurrency/ St Hugh’s College Blakelock, S. Stewart, M. ‘Anti-avoidance measures of Harris Manchester College blockchain; the sharing economy, technology industry; general nature and scope’, International Fiscal Association international tax; BEPS; tax avoidance EDUCATION E EDUCATION - cahiers de droit fiscal international; Volume 103, May, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, LLM, MASTER 2018 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, ASSOCIATE TO THE HON. JUSTICE DAVIES, FEDERAL OF LAWS (12/2007) IN LEGAL PRACTICE (07/2015) COURT OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA Blakelock, S. ‘Australia’s ‘Google’ Tax - Stemming the Tide Associate to the head of the Federal Court’s tax list THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH , AUSTRALIA, Down under’, Bloomberg, BNA, April, 2017 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, LLB, BACHELOR OF LAWS (10/2001) Blakelock, S. ‘Resolving double taxation in a global BACHELOR OF LAWS (12/2014) PUBLICATIONS EMPLOYMENT environment’, The APPEA Journal, Volume 58 pp.501 - Honours Emery, J. Stewart, M. ‘The Taxing Challenge of Digital 504, May, 2018 Currency’, Journal of Banking and Finance Law and PARTNER, TAX DISPUTE RESOLUTION & CONTROVERSY, EMPLOYMENT Practice, 2017 KPMG, AUSTRALIA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS LAWYER, FINANCIAL ADVISORY, Working with and providing specialist dispute resolution International tax; tax and treaty disputation; regulatory PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, AUSTRALIA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS advice and strategy to multi-national and domestic investigations; transfer pricing; arbitration Tax lawyer advising on transactions/structuring and Tax law; litigation; M&A; blockchain/cryptocurrency; taxpayers; representing taxpayers at all stages of the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION litigation/disputes RegTech/FinTech and technology; international tax and dispute continuum avoidance; tax/legal implications of new technologies Member of IFA (Australian Branch executive); Chartered VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW, CRAWFORD SCHOOL OF PARTNER, TAX, MCCULLOUGH ROBERTSON LAWYERS, Tax Advisor; admitted as a Legal practitioner; recognised ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PUBLIC POLICY/TAX AND TRANSFER POLICY INSTITUTE, AUSTRALIA as a Best Lawyer (2017–2019); Who’s Who Legal - Forsyth Pose Taxation Scholar Corporate Tax (2016–2018) AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA SENIOR ASSOCIATE, ASHURST, AUSTRALIA Commercial, regulatory dispute resolution OLIVER EXALL LUXEMBOURG [email protected] Legal research; drafting and preparing client JACOB DABDOUB ME XICO St Hugh’s College memorandums; liaison with tax authorities German, French, Luxembourgish [email protected] ERNST & YOUNG, MEXICO INTERN, , LUXEMBOURG St Hugh’s College EDUCATION Transaction and corporate tax; estate and individual tax Assisting in providing advice on Luxembourg tax law in D Spanish planning UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG, TAX LAW cross-border investment transactions by AIFs, financial EDUCATION LLM (07/2018) institutions or HNWIs PUBLICATIONS Awarded ATOZ scholarship INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO Dabdoub, J. ‘International Exchange of Information for Tax CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS (ITAM), MEXICO, BACHELOR OF LAWS (07/2015) Purposes and the Taxpayers’ Rights in Mexico’, Dofiscal MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS, International tax; corporate tax; private equity; wealth Cum Laude Thomson Reuters, 2016 EUROPEAN AND TAX LAW LLM (07/2017) management; state aid; investment funds

INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Distinction ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (ITAM), MEXICO, BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTING International tax policy EMPLOYMENT Currently passing Luxembourg bar (06/2018) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INTERN, CMS, LUXEMBOURG EMPLOYMENT Certified Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEP); Certified ÁLVAREZ ALCALÁ, S.C., MEXICO Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) Transaction and corporate tax; estate and individual tax planning; tax litigation and policy CASSIEL FORSON GHANA [email protected] Responsible for revenue; expenditure; external resources St Anne’s College mobilisation; debt management F EDUCATION PITAMBAR DAS INDIA MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, PARLIAMENT OF GHANA, KNUST, GHANA, MSC ECONOMICS (12/2017) GHANA [email protected] Policy decisions and drafting of legislations relating to Ranking member of the finance committee St Anne’s College domestic and international taxation CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF TAXATION, GHANA, MEMBER Hindi, Oriya, Bengali OF CIT(GH) (2015) ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER OF INCOME-TAX, CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EDUCATION INCOME-TAX DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, LONDON SOUTHBANK UNIVERSITY, UK, BSC Tax Policy CIOT, UK, ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN INTERNATIONAL INDIA ACCOUNTING (07/2003) TAXATION (07/2017) Assessment of corporate and non-corporate tax payers EMPLOYMENT UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, MAS CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS DEPUTY MINISTER OF FINANCE, MINISTRY OF FINANCE, INTERNATIONAL TAXATION (07/2015) Tax policy; consulting in cross border taxation including GHANA First rank, TEI EMEA Chapter Award for outstanding transfer pricing; taxation of digitised business; dispute academic achievements resolution; transfer pricing

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(ISM), INDIA, MSC ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TECH IN APPLIED GEOLOGY (06/1994) Visiting faculty at University of Lausanne and at National Academy of Direct Taxes, India; speaker at various forums First Class with distinction on topics on domestic and international taxation EMPLOYMENT DIRECTOR, TAX POLICY & LEGISLATION, MINISTRY OF FINANCE, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, INDIA

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4 MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2018/19 WWW.LAW.OX.AC.UK/MSCTAX 5 DOMINIC FOULKES UK VICTORIA KENT-BAGULEY UK [email protected] EMPLOYMENT [email protected] BPP UNIVERSITY, UK, GDL (07/2016) Harris Manchester College Harris Manchester College TAX ASSOCIATE, DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL LLP, UK KING’S COLLEGE LONDON, UK, BA CLASSICS (07/2014) EDUCATION K Italian, Arabic (Egypt), Russian, French advising on broad range of corporate tax matters EMPLOYMENT COLLEGE OF LAW, UK, EDUCATION (2008) TAX ASSOCIATE, ALLEN & OVERY LLP, UK BPP UNIVERSITY, UK, BPTC (07/2017) UK TAX COUNSEL, SOVEREIGN GROUP, UK Distinction Trainee and qualified solicitor advising on broad range of Advocacy Scholar CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS corporate tax matters UK and offshore tax planning; compliance; tax treaties UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, UK, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS (2006) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Taxation of corporate finance transactions, including public First Class Honours; Student-in-Residence Scholar 2003- and private mergers and acquisitions; reorganisations and 2005 restructurings; intellectual property and capital markets JASPER KIM USA transactions [email protected] ASSOCIATE LEGAL COUNSEL, LEHMAN BROTHERS, Christ Church JAPAN EDUCATION Providing legal counsel for the Financial Engineering Group and Distressed/High-Yield trading desks PETER HANTON UK , SOAS, UK, MBA BANKING (12/2016) [email protected] EMPLOYMENT PUBLICATIONS Kim, J. ‘Persuasion: The Hidden Forces That Influence St Hugh’s College ASSOCIATE, , UK RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, USA, JURIS DOCTOR (06/1999) H French Negotiations’, Routledge Press (book publication), 2018 Cross-border private M&A, with a particular focus on LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (LSE), UK, MSC Kim, J. ‘Utilizing Next Generation Impact Bond Structures EDUCATION private equity transactions ECONOMIC HISTORY (07/1997) and Legal Agreements’, World Bank Legal Review, 2016 BPP UNIVERSITY, UK, MA LPC WITH BUSINESS CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EMPLOYMENT (07/2015) Kim, J. ‘ABA Fundamentals: International Economic Cross-border M&A; private equity; corporate finance; PROFESSOR, EWHA UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA Systems’, American Bar Association (ABA), 2012 UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, venture capital; entrepreneurship; strategy consulting; Teaching and conducting research relating to international (07/2014) international taxation CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS business law, finance, and negotiation strategy International business law; negotiation strategy; finance; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION , UK, BA (HONS) HISTORY international taxation (06/2013) Admitted as a Solicitor in and Wales ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, BARCLAYS CAPITAL, , SAR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Providing legal structuring strategies and services for the US-licensed attorney (Washington DC, New Jersey), Fixed Income Division and Structured Products Group Harvard (program on negotiation) JINGSHU HUANG CHINA [email protected] EMPLOYMENT Harris Manchester College RESEARCH ASSISTANT, , UK GUNEL LATIFOVA UK Chinese (Mandarin) Assisting the professor to get relevant data about the [email protected] WORK EXPERIENCE STUDENT, STATE OIL COMPANY OF EDUCATION project St Hugh’s College AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC, AZERBAIJAN UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK, BSC ACCOUNTING AND L Russian Assistant to in-house lawyer; drafting contract for CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS FINANCE (07/2018) international R&D project International corporate taxation; M&A; transfer pricing EDUCATION First Class LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL WORK EXPERIENCE STUDENT, BURBERRY GROUP PLC, SCIENCE, UK, LLB LAW (07/2018) UK First Class in Taxation course Liaising with Russian-speaking franchise buyers; sales and CHUI YING HUI HONG KONG merchandising and global markets departments LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, UK, LSE 100 [email protected] EMPLOYMENT COURSE (07/2017) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Christ Church ASSOCIATE, WITHERSWORLDWIDE, HONG KONG Distinction Legal practice; cross-border tax and tax strategy; tax and Cantonese, Mandarin social responsibility Private Client and Tax team EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INTERN, ZAMAN INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE SENIOR ASSOCIATE, MAYER BROWN JSM, HONG KONG Young Enterprise; managing director role; best company THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG SAR, BROKER LLC, AZERBAIJAN POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN LAWS (P.C.LL.) Private Clients, Trusts & Estates team report (East London); mathematics mentor; The (06/2010) Research into legal and tax consequences for global Worshipful Company of Saddlers’ Prize for Economics and LEGAL COUNSEL – SECONDEE, THE HONGKONG AND expansion; active team member of two start-up products; Politics Distinction; awarded The Jerome Chan Prize for P.C.LL. translating (Azerbaijani/Russian into English) Student 2010 SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, HONG KONG THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG SAR, Providing legal support to Private Wealth Solutions team BACHELOR OF LAWS (LLB) (06/2009) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG SAR, Private clients; trusts BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (LAW) (BBA (LAW)) (06/2007) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong SAR, as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an attorney-at-law in New , US; STEP Qualification

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6 MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2018/19 WWW.LAW.OX.AC.UK/MSCTAX 7 GASPAR LOPES DIAS VIEIRA DA SILVA L UXEMBOURG TAMTA MAISURADZE GEOR GIA [email protected] IBFD LECTURER AND CORRESPONDENT [email protected] WELFARE ADVICE AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT ASSISTANT, Kellogg College Kellogg College LEICESTER COLLEGE, UK TRANSFER PRICING ADVISER, KPMG, BELGIUM French, Spanish, Portuguese M Georgian Advising and supporting customers on financial issues Transfer pricing advisory on multinational’s value chain; EDUCATION EDUCATION restructurings and documentation CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS WU (VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND , UK, BSC ACCOUNTING AND International taxation; tax avoidance schemes and BUSINESS), AUSTRIA, ADVANCED TRANSFER PRICING PUBLICATIONS FINANCE (06/2018) legislation; wealth management; tax policy; tax related COURSE (SPECIFIC TOPICS) / VISITING RESEARCHER Moons, P. Lopes Dias, G. ‘Services or Intangible Property First Class Honours; graduated in top 5% of class academic research (10/2016) Transfer?’, BNA Bloomberg, TP Forum, December 2017 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Lopes Dias, G. ‘Tax Arbitrage through Cross-Border TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY, GEORGIA, BACHELOR OF INTERNATIONAL TAX CENTER LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS, Vice-President of Bright Future Society, University of Financial Engineering’, Kluwer Law International, Series on LAW (06/2010) ADVANCED TRANSFER PRICING COURSE (05/2015) Leicester; working within a large group of students to International Taxation, February 2015 EMPLOYMENT maximise their employability skills through collaboration TILBURG UNIVERSITY, EUROPEAN TAX COLLEGE, Lopes Dias, G. ‘The concept of Debt-Claim as the Key with industry; Leicester Award 2016 winner for NETHERLANDS, ADV. LLM EUROPEAN AND INTERN, THE MILLER PARTNERSHIP TAXATION Distinguishing Factor between Dividend and Interest SPECIALISTS, UK successfully completing employability challenge INTERNATIONAL TAXATION (06/2014) Income in the OECD MC’, IBFD, Derivatives & Financial Cum Laude Instruments, February 2015 Carrring out research in relation to DOTAS guidance; HMRC clearances; transaction in securities; observing EMPLOYMENT CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS interviews with corporate clients TAX ASSOCIATE, LOYENS & LOEFF, LUXEMBOURG International tax; transfer pricing; financial operations; International tax; transfer pricing and Luxembourg permanent establishments corporate tax advisory; focusing on funds’ and ADDITIONAL INFORMATION LAWRENCE MAN HONG KONG multinational’s holding and financing operations Portuguese Bar (Qualifying), IFA/YIN member [email protected] ‘The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong', 2013, chap Harris Manchester College 112 (Inland Revenue Ordinance) and chap 289 (Tax Cantonese, Mandarin Reserve Certificates Ordinance) HEIKE LUECKE UK EDUCATION Lawrence, M. ‘Butterworth’s Hong Kong Inland Revenue Handbook' (2nd edn, LexisNexis, 2013) [email protected] PUBLICATIONS CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, PCLL Kellogg College Luecke, H. ‘Creditors’ committees — the Cinderella of (07/2006) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS German English insolvency law?’, Corporate Rescue and Insolvency GPA 4 in legal writing Promoting tax service in Hong Kong as a legal discipline; Journal, 2013 EDUCATION judicial interpretation of OECD’s DTA and TP principles; Luecke, H. ‘Pre-Insolvency Proceedings – The Effect of UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK, LLM (11/2000) judicial review in tax matters; HK’s unique source concept; , UK, PHD (05/2016) anti-avoidance the new EU Proposal of Germany’s Insolvency Landscape’, EMPLOYMENT Awarded without amendments International Commercial and Company Law Review, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 2017 , TAX CHAMBERS, HONG KONG Advised a number of major UK and US investment banks KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, UK, LLM (03/2008) Advising clients and accounting firms on tax matters; Umfreville, C. Omar, P. Luecke, H. Lynch Fannon, I. Veder, in HK; awarded Sanford Yung Prize for excellence in tax defending clients in tax disputes and investigations Distinction, Howell-Jones Prize M. Carballo Pineiro, L. ‘Recognition of UK Insolvency matters Proceedings Post-Brexit: The Impact of a ‘No Deal’ PUBLICATIONS LANDGERICHTSBEZIRK HAGEN, GERMANY, LAW Scenari’, forthcoming, 2018 DEGREE, SECOND JURIDICAL STATE EXAMINATION ‘Lord Millett’s Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms and (12/2001) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Precedents’, 2012, Vol 16 (Taxation and Revenue) EMPLOYMENT Taxation and insolvency law LECTURER IN LAW, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, BUSINESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SCHOOL, UK Qualified German Lawyer (non-practising); solicitor in CALEB MCCONNELL NE W ZEALAND Teaching law for accountants and insolvency law England and Wales (non-practising); member of INSOL Europe [email protected] LAW/TAX TUTOR, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND LECTURER IN LAW, POSTGRADUATE COURSE DIRECTOR, Christ Church KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON LAW SCHOOL, UK EDUCATION Tutoring torts and tax papers

PART-TIME LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS UK LLB (HONS) / BCA (ACCOUNTING) (03/2015) Taxation (international, corporate, disputes and funds) and Teaching on the LPC; accounts, tax and insolvency Law First Class Honours taxation policy; international tax policy EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TAX ASSOCIATE, SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP, UK Barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand; Field Court Tax Chambers Scholar; Robin Oliver Tax Policy Advising on all aspects of corporate taxation including: Scholarship recipient; Dean’s List of Academic Excellence international tax, funds, CLOs, mergers and acquisitions and oil and gas

SOLICITOR, CHAPMAN TRIPP, NEW ZEALAND Advising on aspects of domestic and international taxation, with a particular focus on structuring and tax disputes

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8 MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2018/19 WWW.LAW.OX.AC.UK/MSCTAX 9 LUCKYSTAR MIYANDAZI KENY A RYAN POWER UK [email protected] Working on Europe and Africa tax policies for inclusive and [email protected] MINI-PUPILLAGE, PUMP COURT TAX CHAMBERS, UK St Hugh’s College sustainable development St Hugh’s College Assisting in the preparation of an opinion in respect of Swahili, French P EDUCATION inheritance tax TAX POWER CAMPAIGN AFRICA COORDINATOR, EDUCATION ACTIONAID INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, JURISPRUDENCE (LAW) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS UNIVERSITA CATOLLICA DEL SACRO COURE-ASERI, Delivering of pan-African ‘tax power’ campaigns in more (08/2018) Taxation; real estate law; trusts law ITALY, MASTERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS than 15 African countries EMPLOYMENT (11/2011) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MINI-PUPILLAGE, FIELD COURT TAX CHAMBERS, UK Distinction CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS President of St Hugh’s College Law Society (2016-2017); International taxation policy and structure; tax structures Attending court with a member of Chambers Men’s Captain for Oxford University Lacrosse Club (2018- UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (USIU), BA in African countries; policy analysis and implementation; 2019); Half-Blue in Men’s Lacrosse (2018) INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (07/2010) creating multi-actor partnerships; gender and MINI-PUPILLAGE, 11 NEW SQUARE TAX CHAMBERS, UK development; inequality; illicit financial flows; tax treaties Magna Cum Laude Attending court for an appeal against a VAT assessment between developed and developing countries; BEPS and assisiting in the preparation of an opinion in respect of EMPLOYMENT Capital Gains Tax POLICY OFFICER, ECDPM, NETHERLANDS

LIAM QUIRKE IRELAND CLAIRE NICHOLSON AUSTRALIA [email protected] LEADER OF TAX PRACTICE, MATHESON, IRELAND Kellogg College [email protected] Solicitor advisor for multinational clients; advising on a CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Q EDUCATION Christ Church wide range of taxes, including international tax, transfer Taxation of foreign direct investment; banking and pricing, corporate reconstruction, income tax and duties financial services transactions; cross-border business and N EDUCATION INSTITUTE OF TAX, IRELAND, CHARTERED TAX ADVISER (06/1990) transfer pricing controversies UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, MASTER OF PUBLICATIONS TAX (03/2013) Nicholson, C. ‘Limiting the immediate deduction for LAW SOCIETY, IRELAND, SOLICITOR (02/1990) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION exploration expenditure’, Australian Resources and Energy Consistently ranked (20+ years) as one of the leading UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND, AUSTRALIA, BACHELOR Law Journal, 2014 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, BACHELOR OF international tax lawyers in Ireland; Law Society of Ireland OF LAWS (04/2010) CIVIL LAW (06/1986) council member; UCD Sutherland School of Law council Magid, L. Nicholson, C. Hoe, J. ‘New international tax member; formerly, member of Irish Prime Minister’s First Class Honours EMPLOYMENT convention widens reciprocal enforcement’, CCH Tax Committee on International Banking and Treasury; Week, 2012 TAXATION INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA, PARTNERSHIP CHAIRMAN, MATHESON, IRELAND chairman of Irish Branch of IFA; council member of the CHARTERED TAX ADVISOR (10/2014) Knight, T. Feiner, J. Nicholson, C. ‘Transfer pricing update Dublin Chamber of Commerce – new APA guide and recent ATO rulings’, CCH Tax Week, MANAGING PARTNER, MATHESON, IRELAND EMPLOYMENT 2011 BARRISTER, VICTORIAN BAR, AUSTRALIA CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Independent specialist advocate in litigious matters and CATHERINE RICHARDSON UK Corporate Tax; trusts, professional liability of tax and advisor in dispute resolution and litigation strategy financial advisors [email protected] CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS SOLICITOR, ALLENS LINKLATERS, AUSTRALIA St Hugh’s College UK and international taxation; structured finance; corporate taxation; tax policy R EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, BCOM/LLB ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (12/2010) Admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and JOAN ELIZABETH O CONNOR IREL AND Wales and admitted as a lawyer in Queensland, Australia EMPLOYMENT (non-practising) [email protected] TAX SENIOR MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL AND TAX ASSOCIATE, CADWALADER WICKERSHAM & TAFT Christ Church FINANCIAL SERVICES, PRICEWATERHOUSE, IRELAND LLP, UK O French Advising corporates on structuring tax efficient EDUCATION operations; global tax issues; financial services operations IRISH TAX INSTITUTE, IRELAND, FELLOW OF THE IRISH PUBLICATIONS AMEDEO RIZZO ITALY TAX INSTITUTE (2008) O Connor, J. and various management colleagues, ‘International Tax Update published 5 times per annum’, [email protected] TEMPORARY AGENT, DG ECFIN, EUROPEAN IRISH CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS INSTITUTE, IRELAND, The Irish Tax Review, 2002-2018 St Anne’s College COMMISSION, BELGIUM FELLOW OF THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED Italian, French Coordination of International Financial Institutions; fiscal ACCOUNTANTS (2002) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS EDUCATION advisory on tackling tax avoidance; analysis of the EU TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, IRELAND, BA International taxation; policy and strategy; M&A; defense blending facilities in developing countries BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, ITALY, MSC BUSINESS (MOD) CHEMISTRY, M.A. (1983) and litigation; intellectual property law ADMINISTRATION AND LAW (04/2017) INTERN, INTERNATIONAL TAX AND TRANSFER PRICING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMPLOYMENT Summa Cum Laude; Fondazione Boroli Graduation Prize; TEAM, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, ITALY Led Deloitte Ireland’s Tech, Social Media and Telecoms; attended Université Libre de Bruxelles TAX PARTNER, CORPORATE AND INTERNATIONAL, Energy & resources industry groups; formed and led the CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS DELOITTE, IRELAND R&D, transfer pricing and tax policy groups; past president BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, ITALY, BSC BUSINESS International taxation; EU tax policy; tax policy for Advising listed and large private global companies on of the Irish Tax Institute (2007/2008); various not-for- ADMINISTRATION (09/2014) developing countries; public policy; anti-tax avoidance international tax planning; M&A and litigation issues profit board appointments and schools in Ireland and UK EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Executive Program on ‘Digital Economy’ at SDA Bocconi TEACHING FELLOW OF CORPORATE TAXATION, School of Management (teaching assistant to the course); BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, ITALY ‘International Scenarios of Organised Crime’ at the Research about OECD guidelines and EU directives against University of Milan (with distinction); ‘Islamic Finance and tax avoidance Law’ in Dubai with CBL International

10 MSC TAXATION CLASS OF 2018/19 WWW.LAW.OX.AC.UK/MSCTAX 11 ALEKSANDR STEPANYAN ARMENIA, UK YAN XU HONG KONG [email protected] SHADOWED DIRECTORS OF FIRM, DSA PROSPECTS [email protected] POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF HONG St Hugh’s College / FIVE NINTHS, TAX ADVISORY & MANAGEMENT St Anne’s College KONG, HONG KONG S Russian CONSULTANCY, UK X Mandarin, Cantonese Teaching tax law courses and doing tax law research EDUCATION Contributing to complex research around capital reduction EDUCATION demergers and equity incentive arrangements, and PUBLICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, BA LAW (JURISPRUDENCE) presenting findings to a substantial owner managed UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG, PHD Xu, Y. ‘Foreign Tax Credits and the Complexity of Tax Law: (06/2018) business (12/2008) China as a Case Study’, Australian Tax Review, 2017 EMPLOYMENT Nomination for best PhD dissertation CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Xu, Y. ‘Red China’s Green Ambition: Using Taxation and Emissions Trading to Address Pollution’, Tax Notes VACATION SCHEME, QUALIFIED VIA FASTTRACK, BRAND Wealth management; wealth and tax planning WUHAN UNIVERSITY, CHINA, MPHIL (06/2004) AMBASSADOR, WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP, UK International, 2018 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Top 5% of class Providing legal research and administrative support in Xu, Y. ‘Capital Gains Taxation in China’, Michael Littlewood bankruptcy, restructuring, banking, tax and litigation seats Captained UK delegation for the World Individual Public EMPLOYMENT and Craig Elliffe (eds.), Capital Gains Taxation: A Speaking and Debating Championships 2015 achieving Comparative Analysis of Key Issues, 2017 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG VACATION SCHEME, QUALIFIED VIA NORTON ROSE top 20 overall (delegate in 2013 and coach in 2016); KONG, HONG KONG FULBRIGHT’S INAUGURAL OXFORD DEBATING spoke at the House of Lords representing the British Army CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS COMPETITION, NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT LLP, UK debating legacy of WWI Teaching a range of different legal subjects and conducting Taxation; consulting and blockchains; international tax research on tax law and policy; supervising research policy, VAT law design and enforcement; tax history postgraduate students

ANDREW TITCHENER UK [email protected] Leading the FATCA and CRS compliance process St Anne’s College TAX ADVISER, GRANT THORNTON UK LLP, UK T EDUCATION Advising a range of privately-held businesses on their tax UNIVERSITY OF LAW, UK, GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW affairs (03/2016) Commendation, joint highest mark in the year for final TAX MANAGER, GRANT THORNTON UK LLP, UK essay Leading tax technical training strategy, design and delivery, for the UK tax practice KAPLAN, UK, CHARTERED TAX ADVISER (01/2012) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS , UK, BA(HONS) ACCOUNTING Tax policy and design; taxation of global wealth; cross AND FINANCE (07/2008) border information sharing EMPLOYMENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TAX AND RISK REVIEW MANAGER, TRIDENT TRUST Co-founded BVI FATCA/CRS Industry practitioners COMPANY (BVI) LIMITED, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS working group

GARETH WILLIAMS CANADA [email protected] SENIOR MANAGER, PWC & DELOITTE, CANADA St Hugh’s College Oil & gas taxation in Alberta; P3 structuring in British W EDUCATION Columbia CPA CANADA, CANADA, IN-DEPTH TAX COURSE PUBLICATIONS (08/2006) Williams, G. Plecko, H. ‘Various Aspects of Control, Course tutor: 2007-2013 Including De Facto Control’, 2015 British Columbia Tax Conference, Canadian Tax Foundation, 11:1-15, 2015 BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERISTY OF LONDON, UK, LLB (06/2002) CAREER AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Pearson Prize for environmental law, Dechert Prize for Taxation of sovereign wealth funds; taxation of pension corporate law plans; tax policy; taxation and the (EU) free movement of capital; private equity and tax incentives; tax avoidance EMPLOYMENT and evasion; tax havens PARTNER, LAWSON LUNDELL, LLP, CANADA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Tax structuring for inbound investment in Canada, typically Called to the British Columbia Bar, 2015 from Hong Kong, China and the United States; advising public sector pension plans; sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors on outbound investment into Australia, the UK, continental Europe, the United States and India.

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MSC IN TAXATION UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

ADVISORY BOARD Philip Baker QC, Field Court Tax Chambers Richard Collier, Associate Fellow at Said Business School, formerly a Tax Partner at PwC Bill Dodwell, Tax writer and policy adviser at the Office of Tax Simplification, formerly Head of Tax Policy at Deloitte Liesl Fichardt, Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP Janine Juggins, Executive Vice President of Global Tax, Unilever

Through the generosity of our benefactors, the following students have been awarded scholarships for MSc in Taxation Programme 2018/19

JAMES BULLOCK SCHOLARSHIP A scholarship is granted in memory of James Bullock, a partner in Pinsent Mason whose support for Oxford Tax and untimely passing we commemorate by this gift. Sarah Blakelock

FIELD COURT TAX CHAMBERS SCHOLARSHIPS Dominic Foulkes Luckystar Miyandazi Caleb McConnell

The Faculty of Law and Centre for Business Taxation are grateful to all the donors who support various aspects of their work.

They are listed at www.law.ox.ac.uk/patrons-and-supporters and www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/faculty-research/tax/about/funding.

In particular the Faculty of Law would like to thank Pinsent Masons LLP for the firm’s continuing support of tax teaching in Oxford. Their donation is associated with the Faculty of Law Chair in Taxation.

We would also like to thank the Tax Executives Institute and Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers for the donation of prizes, Field Court Tax Chambers for the donation of scholarships, and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP for contributing towards our end of course event in June 2018.

Potential employers should note that we also have students studying some tax modules on the Bachelor of Civil Law, Magister Juris and on the MSc in Law and Finance.

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