Ari is a Special Counsel in Mallesons' Taxation Group. With over 15 years’ experience, Ari advises on all areas of direct and indirect tax and his practice covers significant transactions and disputes (including audits, disputes, objections and appeals) involving income tax, GST, stamp duties and other taxes across all jurisdictions in Australia. His experience includes matters relating to general anti-avoidance, cross border leasing, valuations, customs and excise, transfer pricing, restructures, refinancings, securitisations and concessional treatment for the same in all States and Territories.
Ari regularly assists large multi-national corporations in managing the tax issues that arise on mergers and acquisitions, business and asset transfers, joint ventures, capital raisings, mining transactions, property transactions and financial transactions.
Ari’s recent experience and work highlights include:
- Coles Group Ltd: advising on various tax aspects including GST, customs, excise and WET relevant to Coles products.
- Dexus: advising on various stamp duty and land tax matters, including the acquisition of the Jandakot Airport and the establishment of the Jandakot joint venture.
- Glencore: advising on stamp duty, income tax and GST on a range of Glencore’s disposals, acquisitions and bids.
- Multinational mining client: advice on settling dispute with the ATO concerning various tax consequences relating to the company’s coal assets.
- Greatland: stamp duty advice on the acquisition of Newmont’s Telfer and Havieron assets.
- Lightsource BP: advice on various critical tax issues relating to Lightsource’s solar and battery energy storage system projects.
- Telstra: stamp duty and GST advice relating to all aspects of the restructure of the Telstra Group (including the establishment and interposition of Telstra Group Limited as the new head entity of the Telstra Group), stamp duty and GST advice on the restructure of Telstra’s towers assets and business and subsequent partial disposal of that business (Amplitel) and stamp duty and GST advice on the restructure and partial sell down of an unlisted property trust with 37 exchange properties.
