
Alun advises on all direct taxes in a business context, as well as SDLT and VAT.
Much of his practice is advisory, whether planning, transaction-based or assisting in relation to disputes with HMRC. Typically instructions come by email and are discussed in conference or by phone. He then settles a note of the advice given.
Litigation is also undertaken, usually at FTT/UT level.
Alun seeks always to develop a good working relationship with his clients. Many are in contact on a regular basis, sometimes just to talk a possible matter through, as well as for specific advice. Alun believes that the better our professional clients understand what we do, and the benefits we can provide, the better the end product.
He has been in practice since 1988 and is also a member of Exchange Chambers in Liverpool and Manchester.

Nigel Holmes FCA CTA is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser and is Director, Research and Development at Ryan.
He has over 20 years experience in R&D tax relief and has lectured and written widely on the subject.
In 2017 he was shortlisted for Taxation’s Tax Writer of the Year award. He joined Ryan (formerly Catax) in April 2017 after nearly 25 years at a large regional practice.

Pete has always taken an interest in tax policy, having had policy roles with the Inland Revenue. In recent years, his involvement, both personally and through his CIOT positions, has helped shape several aspects of the current tax regime, including the 2011 changes to the capital gains tax exit charges and the amended joint-venture and partnership rules for entrepreneurs’ relief (now business asset disposal relief).
Associate director Nick joined Jerroms as a Corporate Tax Manager in 2019 to undertake technical tax research, planning and advisory projects for our business and corporate clients.
With Pete and the team, he provides specialist corporate tax advice in areas such as transactions tax, company reconstructions and Employee Ownership Trusts, Employment Related Securities and employee share schemes both to individuals and to accountants and solicitors requiring support for their own clients.

Philip advises on all areas of revenue law, both corporate and personal, but has a particular interest in corporate tax matters including, acquisitions and disposals, reconstructions and demergers, MBOs, returning capital to shareholders, s425 schemes, SDLT, stamp duty and SDRT.
Philip has a special expertise in the taxation of insolvent companies, members’ voluntary liquidations (including s110 schemes) and bankruptcy, and lectures regularly to R3 and is a member of the R3/HMRC liaison group which meet regularly to discuss issues of conflict between insolvency law and tax law. Over the years he has been involved in advising on the tax aspects of some of the UK’s major insolvencies including Maxwell, Pollypeck, BCCI, Olympia and York, Mayflower, ITVdigital, MFI, Allied Carpets, Borders, Farepak and Lehman Bros. He is a Member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (MABRP) having passed the JIEB examinations.

Chris is an Expatriate Tax Director based in London with over 15 years’ experience of advising companies and their employees in respect of international mobility, overseas remote working and international payroll.
Chris has vast experience in assisting clients of all sizes, across a variety of different sectors. He provides a wide variety of services, including cross border tax and social security advice, tax efficient structuring and planning of assignments, advice in respect short term business visitors, international coordination of advice and compliance services, completion of home and host tax returns, arrival/departure tax consultations, advice in relation to tax equalisation and net pay schemes.
David is a Director in the Employer Solutions team, specialising in cross-border employment. He has advised companies that have internationally mobile workforces with regard to the more formal nature of global tax and social security compliance, tax efficient structuring of assignments, tax policy design and implementation, and business traveller risks. As the way people work continues to evolve, so does the nature of his work. In addition to the above, David now supports businesses with challenges arising from international commuting, international and remote working, and all other facets of cross-border employment.
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Full details of the speakers and topics for this conference will be posted as soon as they are finalised. Normally 4-5 weeks before the conference date.
Delegates will receive a comprehensive set of notes to take away and will have the opportunity to ask questions of any of the speakers both on the day and in advance of the conference. This conference will provide 6 hours CPD / CPE and will offer the chance to network with other local senior tax professionals.
This conference features a “4 for the price of 3” offer so that key members of your tax team can attend and hear the latest ideas first-hand.