Peter Male leaves EY London to join Boutique TP Firm

After 19 years as a Tax Partner with Ernst & Young UK, Peter Male has joined specialist boutique, Transfer Pricing Solutions, to provide transfer pricing and thin capitalisation advisory services to both multi-national and UK domestic groups. He works alongside Gareth Green, founder of Transfer Pricing Solutions.

Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Advisor, Peter specialised in corporation tax with one of the Big Five, advising both business start-ups and established multi-nationals. He subsequently joined Ernst & Young to work in their embryonic Transaction Tax team, advising on acquisitions, reconstructions and flotations and he was admitted to the partnership in 1988.

Peter transferred to the firm’s Luton Regional Office to help develop taxation services to a growing international client base in the northern Home Counties. This led him to develop his initial expertise in transfer pricing and thin capitalisation. By the mid-nineties transfer pricing was seen as an increasingly important area for MNEs and Peter was instrumental in Ernst & Young establishing a specialist core team in London, with team members also being located in key regional offices.

The introduction of tighter UK transfer pricing legislation in Finance Act 1998 resulted in an even greater demand for Peter’s expertise from clients in a broad range of industry sectors, including high-tech, automotive, engineering, consumer products, chemicals, medical devices, pharma and financial services.

Peter became Head of Transfer Pricing for the firm’s Central Region and then South Region before returning to London as a Partner within the core transfer pricing team.

His assignments have ranged from compliance documentation to transfer pricing planning and international supply chain structuring. He is also recognised for his extensive experience in transfer pricing controversy work, having successfully defended numerous clients following challenges from HM Revenue & Customs.

Peter now works directly with clients in industry and commerce as well as with firms of accountants and lawyers who do not have their own transfer pricing specialists. He also works with larger clients as a quasi in-house resource, managing more complex international assignments and liaising with external advisors, both in the UK and overseas. His many years of experience and extensive knowledge of UK corporation tax and international structuring enable him to bring a wider perspective to transfer pricing planning.

Peter continues to write and lecture on transfer pricing and UK corporation tax issues.