John is a tax specialist. He advises in all areas of taxation, in particular income tax issues faced by public company clients.

His extensive taxation experience has included legal opinion work on many of the income tax and duty issues encountered by corporate taxpayers and negotiating the resolution of disputes with the Inland Revenue Department.

John was also law drafter for the Consultative Committee that oversaw the introduction of the imputation regime for the taxation of company distributions.

Qualifications

LLM, Victoria University of Wellington

Admitted

1978 New Zealand

International Career

  • Shearman & Stirling, LLP, Paris
    2006