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Speakers Biogs

John Verwey

Edward Lee

Kirsten Lapham

Rupert Lee

Rupert joined Deloitte in October 2019.Prior to joining Deloitte, Rupert worked for a financial services mergers and acquisition tax practice in London where he undertook tax due diligence and advisory engagements for financial services and private equity clients.Rupert also spent six years working in Jersey for another big 4 firm, undertaking corporate tax compliance and advisory engagements for a variety of banking and trust company clients.

Rupert’s primary area of responsibility is overseeing Deloitte’s Jersey corporate tax advisory and compliance engagements, including helping clients to comply with economic substance legislation.

Tom Cowsill

Tom is a director within the Jersey office of PwC’s Channel Islands tax practice.  Tom has experience across international, corporate and private client tax and is currently advising on matters including Economic Substance, DAC6/MDR and the Personal and Corporate tax challenges arising from COVID-19 influenced remote working.  

Previously, Tom spent several years at Jersey Finance Limited where, in is role as Head of Technical, he represented Jersey’s finance industry in discussions with Government and Regulator on the development of tax and regulatory policy.  

More recently, Tom led the Advisory and Policy function at a multinational bank, overseeing tax and regulatory change across the Crown Dependencies and several African jurisdictions.  In this role, Tom provided technical guidance to programmes ensuring compliance with Economic Substance legislation, the UK Trust Register and the Corporate Criminal Offence for Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion

Serena Bell – Funds Tax Director, KPMG UK

 Serena is a tax director who advises a variety of alternative asset managers across asset classes, specialising in private equity, but including infrastructure, credit and real-estate.

Serena specialises in providing a holistic service to her clients from fund set up ,through to overseeing annual tax compliance obligations and advising on the fund tax implications of exits.  She advises transparent fund structures on the design and implementation of carried interest and co-investment arrangements.

Recent experience and ongoing projects include:

·     Advising on the set up of an energy transition fund.

·     Providing a full structure review for a real estate private equity fund with executives based in the UK andUS, from the carried interest arrangements through to holding vehicles for the underlying investments.

·     Assisting funds with theirAutomatic Exchange of Information (‘AEOI’) requirements from initial classification and registration to completing annual reporting, as well assisting executives in responding to HMRC enquiries in relation to information reported by overseas funds.

Rebecca Southwood – Funds Tax Senior Manager, KPMG UK

Rebecca is a tax senior manager providing advice to asset managers from inception to exist as well as tax compliance services.

Recent experience and ongoing projects include:-

·     Advising on the carried interest and co-investment arrangements for a US headquartered firm, including in relation to the ongoing reporting.

·     Advising on the structure of a pan-European mid-market private finds based in Luxembourg.

·     Fund structuring advice for an international infrastructure fund, including the design and implementation of carried interest arrangements, considering the implications for the group and individual participants.

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Tim Morgan

The subject matter will include the following -

• Module 1 - Overview of the Funds and Investment Management regulatory environment in Europe and across the globe
• Julie Patterson, EMA Head of IM Regulatory, KPMG London

• Module 2 – National Risk Assessment: overview of impact for funds managers and fund service providers
• Malin Neilson, Managing Director - Compliance and Regulatory consulting, Duff and Phelps Jersey

• Module 3 - Registry Law – overview of the forthcoming changes to registry law and related updates to codes of practice
• Julian Lamb, Registrar of Companies, JFSC and Helen De La Cour, Lead Policy Advisor, Financial Services and Digital Economy, Government of Jersey

• Module 4 – Economic substance and Tax returns – preparation for visits by the Tax office
• Debbie Payne, Tax Director, PwC Jersey

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Ed Peters & Nick Crandon, BDO