David Lewis joins TP practice at Duff & Phelps in Melbourne

Duff & Phelps has announced that David Lewis has joined the firm as a managing director in its Transfer Pricing practice. David brings more than 27 years of international tax, transfer pricing and supply chain experience, and will be located in Melbourne, Australia.

With experience spanning diverse industries, David brings particular expertise in the natural resources and IT sectors. David joins the firm from Ambleton Consulting, a Duff & Phelps Transfer Pricing Alliance firm that he founded in Australia. Prior to that, he was a partner at Ernst & Young, where he first led the National Transfer Pricing Practice in Australia and later served in the same capacity in the UK.

Mike Heimert, managing director and global leader of the Transfer Pricing Services practice at Duff & Phelps, commented, “David is an ideal addition to our expanding international Transfer Pricing practice, as he brings unparalleled transfer pricing experience, technical knowledge and advisory skills for his global clientele.”

David’s experience includes transfer pricing planning projects for FTSE 100 and 250 clients, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms and one of the world’s largest mining companies. He served as a key strategic advisor to one of the world’s largest corporate insolvencies that included a complex, commercially-significant transfer pricing issue. In addition, he has advised on significant multinational M&A transactions from an international tax and transfer pricing perspective involving both buy and sell-side due diligence, structuring and financing.