Background

• Jennifer is a Partner with Ernst & Young’s Middle East practice and is based in the Doha office.
• She is a Chartered Tax Consultant, registered under the Association of the Irish Taxation Institute.
• She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and holds a Bachelor of Law degree. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in Accounting from Dublin City University.

Professional experience

• Jennifer leads the roll out of GCC VAT across the region working with both public and private sector clients.
• Jennifer has provided international tax advice to Qatari companies investing and expanding their operations outside the State of Qatar, including:
  • Tax efficient structuring; and
  • Due diligence exercises for both company and asset acquisitions.
• Prior to relocating to Qatar she worked on large scale VAT projects with another Big 4 firm including:
  • Leading the EU VAT implementation of a business which had become VATable due to a change in EU VAT Law;
  • Transformation of global telecommunications company to a European VAT Shared Services Centre model;
  • VAT structuring for high value property transactions and mergers.