Arda Ahmed

Arda Ahmed is an Australian legal practitioner and the principal of Norton & Quay Tax Law. His decade in specialist tax began as a tax law graduate at EY in Perth and ran through a succession of Doyle’s Guide-ranked specialist practices: Birchstone Tax Law and Fry Legal in Western Australia and West Garbutt in Queensland.

Along the way he worked directly with three of the country’s ranked tax specialists, Daniel Taborsky and Daniel Fry in Perth and Mark West in Brisbane, on disputes, structuring and the integrity provisions: Division 7A, section 100A and Part IVA.

Prior to founding Norton & Quay, he was Special Counsel at Mills Oakley in Sydney and before that Associate Director at KPMG Australia. He has advised high-net-worth individuals, private groups, corporates and not-for-profits on income tax, CGT and GST. He has managed ATO audits and reviews, including engagements under the Top 100 and Next 5,000 private group programs. His dispute work runs to voluntary disclosures, objections, settlement strategy and litigation support. He is an elected member of The Tax Institute’s NSW State Council.

His transactional practice spans private M&A and financing structuring, due diligence, cross-border arrangements including thin capitalisation, hybrids and TOFA and complex trust and private group restructuring.