Arda Ahmed

Arda Ahmed is an Australian legal practitioner and the principal of Norton & Quay Tax Law. He brings a decade of specialist taxation law experience, beginning his career as a tax law graduate at EY in Perth before progressing through a succession of Doyle’s Guide ranked specialist tax practices: Birchstone Tax Law and Fry Legal in Western Australia, West Garbutt in Queensland, and then KPMG Australia and Mills Oakley in Sydney.

At Fry Legal, Arda worked directly with Daniel Fry, ranked by Doyle’s Guide as a leading Western Australian tax lawyer every year since 2018, advising on taxation issues, ATO disputes and regulatory matters. At West Garbutt he worked directly with Mark West, ranked by Doyle’s Guide as Queensland’s preeminent tax lawyer every year since 2017, advising private groups, charities and corporates on complex tax disputes, structuring and the integrity provisions — Division 7A, section 100A and Part IVA.

Most recently Special Counsel in the taxation team at Mills Oakley, and previously Associate Director at KPMG Australia, Arda has advised high net worth individuals, private groups, corporates and not-for-profit organisations on complex income tax, capital gains tax and GST matters. He has deep experience managing ATO audits and reviews, including engagements under the Top 100 and Next 5,000 private group programs, as well as voluntary disclosures, objections, settlement strategy and litigation support.

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.