UAE Tax Leadership Experience | Frontier Taxation

Principal Engagements

Key assignments and environments

Engagement context

Multiple business lines, legal entities and holding structures required one group-wide response to UAE Corporate Tax and e-invoicing.

Delivery outcome

Delivered the group tax operating model, governance framework, policies, controls, compliance calendar and RACI, while leading e-invoicing readiness through SAP configuration, process mapping, data validation and rollout.

Review delivery evidence (7 points)

Led the greenfield implementation of UAE Corporate Tax across multiple distinct business lines, legal entities and holding structures.
Designed the group tax operating model including governance framework, policies, controls, compliance calendar and internal RACI.
Coordinated directly with the UAE Federal Tax Authority on registration, technical interpretations and compliance matters.
Led the e-invoicing readiness and implementation programme, including ERP (SAP) configuration, process mapping, data validation and rollout.
Integrated tax logic and reporting requirements into SAP and the wider ERP landscape, working alongside internal IT and external system integrators.
Developed group-wide tax policies, risk management frameworks and escalation procedures aligned to board governance requirements.
Managed Finance, Legal, IT, external advisers and business-unit stakeholders across parallel implementation workstreams.

Engagement context

A group operating across 12 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia needed consistent transfer pricing and compliance governance.

Delivery outcome

Established the global transfer pricing policy and documentation framework, embedded arm's-length execution into purchase-order, invoicing and ERP processes, and coordinated compliance through a group calendar and local-adviser panel.

Review delivery evidence (6 points)

Led the group tax function covering operations across 12 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Designed and implemented a global transfer pricing policy covering all significant intercompany transaction types.
Prepared and maintained the group Master File, entity-level Local Files, country-by-country reporting and intercompany agreement framework.
Embedded operational transfer pricing into purchase order, invoicing and ERP processes to achieve arm's length outcomes in practice.
Managed OECD Pillar 2 impact assessment and implementation readiness across the group's jurisdiction footprint.
Oversaw multi-jurisdiction compliance obligations, coordinating a panel of local advisers and maintaining the group compliance calendar.

Engagement context

A cross-border authority enquiry involved multiple jurisdictions, external counsel and significant potential exposure.

Delivery outcome

The matter concluded without penalties or material adjustment to the group's tax position.

Review delivery evidence (4 points)

Led the response to a complex cross-border tax authority enquiry involving multiple jurisdictions and significant potential exposure.
Developed the technical analysis, narrative, supporting documentation and position papers presented to the relevant authorities.
Coordinated external legal and tax counsel across multiple jurisdictions throughout the enquiry.
The matter concluded without penalties or material adjustment to the group's tax position.

Engagement context

Upstream and midstream projects required tax support across Africa, Europe and South America throughout their lifecycle.

Delivery outcome

Delivered support across government negotiations, production-sharing contracts, fiscal terms, authority enquiries, M&A, project structuring, financing and operational tax requirements.

Review delivery evidence (5 points)

International tax experience across multiple upstream and midstream energy projects in Africa, Europe and South America.
Engagement in government negotiations, production-sharing contracts, fiscal terms and host-government tax regimes.
Management of tax audits and enquiries conducted by multiple national tax authorities.
Advised on M&A transactions involving energy assets across multiple jurisdictions.
Supported major project structuring, financing and operational tax requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

Demonstrated Capabilities

Technical disciplines covered

Each of the following areas has been exercised in a live, commercial environment — not as advisory opinion, but as delivery leadership.

UAE Corporate Tax — greenfield implementation and group governance
UAE E-Invoicing — programme leadership and ERP integration
Transfer pricing — design, documentation and operational embedding
Tax function design, controls and compliance architecture
SAP and ERP tax integration
UAE Federal Tax Authority engagement
OECD Pillar 2 impact assessment
Cross-border tax controversy management
International multi-jurisdiction compliance
M&A tax due diligence and structuring
Government negotiations and fiscal engagement
Tax risk governance and board reporting

Academic and Professional

Qualifications

The academic and professional qualifications underpinning the practice's technical expertise span tax law, international taxation and dispute resolution. For a full profile, see the Advisor page.

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Academic

LL.M in Taxation — awarded with Distinction

Professional

Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT)

Academic

Law degree with postgraduate tax-litigation training

Examining

ADIT Examiner and Moderator

Experience

More than 20 years of international tax and legal practice

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Key assignments and environments

Diversified UAE Conglomerate

12-Country Industrial Distribution Group

Complex Cross-Border Tax Controversy

International Energy Operator

Technical disciplines covered

Qualifications

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