Spent most of his professional life with Big Four firms
Worked in the U.K. for nine years prior to immigrating to Dubai
Specializes in international tax and M&A matters
Dubai
@alvarezmarsal
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Vishal Sharma is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax, LLP in Dubai. He brings more than 16 years of experience in international and M&A tax.
Mr. Sharma’s expertise lies in providing inbound and outbound tax advisory services, tax due diligence, tax structuring, financial modeling and transaction document reviews. His additional skills include cross border tax advisory, tax accounting, audit of tax work and management of direct tax compliance obligations.
Mr. Sharma’s notable assignments include providing transactional tax advice across the Middle East and other markets to regional/global sovereign wealth funds, state owned entities, national oil companies, private equity firms, large global multinationals and family offices.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Sharma spent nine years in Deloitte’s Middle East International Tax Services (ITS) group in Dubai, where he most recently served as an M&A Tax Partner.
In addition to his M&A Partner role, Mr. Sharma was the lead tax partner in charge of two large global multinationals in providing regional global compliance and reporting services.
Mr. Sharma earned an LLB from Northampton University in the U.K. He is a Certified Tax Advisor (CTA) and a member of The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT).
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