Alistair Mclaren

Alistair is a transfer pricing director and member of KPMG’s Global Transfer Pricing Services. 

With over 12 years of experience in Australia, UK and the Middle East, Alistair specialises in financial services where he has assisted numerous multinational fnancial services clients with designing, imlplementing and supporting practical transfer pricing policies. His experience covers the spectrum on financial services arrangements such as global trading, remote booking models, fee splits, group recharges, reinsurance, capital allocation and so on.

He has assisted many banking and asset management clients with tax authority transfer pricing enquiries, where he successfully obtained relief from double taxation through Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAP) across the UK. Europe, North America and Asia.  Alistair has also helped financial services businesses agree multilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) and Advanced Thin Cap Agreements (ATCA) globally. Additionally, Alistair has assisted global banks, asset managers and insurance businesses with their transfer pricing compliance obligations which includes global transfer pricing documentation including Country-by-Country reporting, Master File Local File documentation and international deals schedule/disclosure forms.

Alistair also has extensive experience in treasury transfer pricing - assisting various banks, asset managers and insurance businesses set up treasury functions, design overarching transfer pricing policies, implement these polcies into business systems, whilst also designing internal governance frameworks that help align both treasury and transfer pricing objectives.  

Alistair has also been published in various transfer pricing publications on various aspects of treasury transfer pricing such as IBOR transition and UK financial transactions transfer pricing.

Prior to joining Meijburg & Co, Alistair worked with KPMG and other Big 4 consulting firms in Australia, London and Dubai where he assisted global financial services businesses with all aspects of transfer pricing design and implementation.