Shiv Mahalingham
Executive Director, Leadership Team

Shiv was most recently the MENA Head of Transfer Pricing for a Big4 accountancy firm growing that team from 5 to 80 persons and establishing client service doctrines and quality control for the region. Shiv has around twenty five years of experience working with large MNEs to design, document, and defend transfer pricing structures that are BEPS compliant and meet the commercial needs of the business. Shiv has concluded numerous favourable dispute resolutions and advance pricing agreements on behalf of clients in multiple locations with tax authorities including but not limited to the IRS, HMRC, CRA, IRD, ATO, SAT, CBDT, FTA, BF, and GAZT. Shiv is an economist and also has qualifications in tax law, chartered tax, and chartered accountancy. Shiv is ranked as a leading International Tax Specialist and a Best of the Best Transfer Pricing Adviser in the Legal Media Group Expert guides. He has published hundreds of articles over the years and has received notable awards for his writing including the 2020 Bloomberg International Outstanding Tax Writer Award. Shiv has been quoted in the broadsheets in the US, UK, and the UAE and he has appeared on CNBC on a number of occasions to discuss international taxation. Shiv is based in Dubai.