Grant is a Partner at KPMG UK and leads the transfer pricing practice in the UK. Grant specialises in working with global groups to design, implement and defend their transfer pricing operating models. He has over 22 years’ experience as a tax advisor with KPMG working in the UK and China.
In the last 15 years a particular focus of Grant’s has been on developing an integrated tax, commercial and operational approach to transformation projects. This is reflected in the nature of many of his recent projects, which are typically large cross-border projects implementing new supply chain structures and the associated tax aspects for large multinationals.
Grant’s clients span a range of industries, but he has particular expertise in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). His recent projects include:
- Implementing, and defending under tax authority audit, a global principal trading model, for a travel and tourism company.
- Negotiating bilateral APAs (US-UK) for both a profit split model and royalty model across the FMCG space and Industrials space.
- Resolving tax authority disputes in the UK (PDCF), France, Germany and Italy. This was followed by successful MAP.
- Developing a transfer pricing documentation model and process for country by country reporting for a global group with in excess of 600 trading entities.
- Leading a multi-country transformation for a UK based consumer brand business. This included a major supply chain reorganisation involving the establishment of a European principal company, and limited risk distributors across the rest of Europe, and overhauling trading flows with the US and the Far East.
- Post implementation review of a number of centralised value chain models including mock tax authority audits, analysis of substance and model re-design following business changes.
Grant has presented at numerous events and academic institutions covering international tax and transfer pricing.