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ABOUT

ADMISSIONS

2007 - Admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria
2010 - Admitted as a Solicitor of the High Court of Australia
2016 - Admitted to the New South Wales Bar
2018 - Admitted to the Victorian Bar
2021 - 2023 Nationally Accredited Mediator

QUALIFICATIONS & EDUCATION

2004 - Bachelor of Commerce (Hons), University of Queensland

2005 - Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Queensland

2009 - Master of Laws (Hons), University of Melbourne

2021 - Lawyers Mediation Certificate, Victorian Bar

2022 - Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) 

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006 - 2010 Minter Ellison
2010 - 2015 PwC
2015 - 2016 Clayton Utz

2016 -  Bar

2022 - 2024 University of Melbourne Law School  (Lecturer in the Law Masters program - Tax of Innovation)

ARTICLES, PAPERS AND RESEARCH

  • IBFD Global Tax Treaty Commentaries - Australia

  • The impact of NDAs on state and federal taxes (2023) Taxation in Australia 691

  • Oppression: between the Devil and section 233 (2021) Commercial Bar Association 

  • Fifty shades of Greig: the spectrum of taxpayers in share trading (2020) 55(5) Taxation in Australia 250

  • What does it mean to hold an office in an international organisation? [2017] The Journal of the NSW Bar Association 19

  • Disputes and avoidance in the transparency era (2016) Taxation Institute Corporate Tax Masterclass

  • Income and Indirect Tax Consequences of Cash Pooling Arrangements – Australia (2016) Tax Management International Forum - Bloomberg BNA

  • Managing Actual and Deemed PEs (2016) Tax Institute National Convention Paper

  • BEPS - Topics of specific interest to financial services paper (2015) 2015 Financial Services Taxation Conference

  • Responding to Australia’s New Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law (2015) 15(10) Tax Planning International - Asia-Pacific Focus

  • Australian Board of Taxation Report on Arm’s Length Debt Test (2015) 15(8) Tax Planning International - Asia-Pacific Focus

  • IFA Australia Branch Report on Exchange of Information and Cross Border Cooperation between Tax Authorities published in the 2013 Cahiers de droit fiscal international

  • The smoke and mirrors around the "stage one" transfer pricing reforms (2012) 15(5) The Tax Specialist 210

  • Australian tax treaties - trends and developments since the US Protocol (2010) 14(1) The Tax Specialist 46

  • Beyond our shores - review and implications of Australia's global tax transparency campaign (2010) 45 Taxation in Australia 30

  • China is hot, the Chinese DTA is not - is it time to upgrade? (2008) 11(4) The Tax Specialist 276

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MEMBERSHIPS

  • Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

  • The Tax Institute

    • Chartered Tax Adviser

  • International Fiscal Association

  • New South Wales Bar Association

  • Law Council of Australia

    • Committee member of the Taxation Committee

  • Victorian Bar Association

    • Committee member of the Technology and Innovation Committee

    • Committee member of the Tax Bar Association

    • Member of the Commercial Bar Association

  • University of Melbourne​ Law School

    • Honorary Fellow (2019-2022)​

VOLUNTEERING

  • 2024 - current    Board Director, Gender and Disaster Australia

  • 2023 - current.   Volunteer at the Melbourne Law School Tax Clinic

  • 2023 - current.    Mentor at the Melbourne Law School Mentor Program

LANGUAGES

  • English

  • Polish

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© 2020 by Piotr Klank

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