Rodney Richard

Consultant

+61 3 9603 3411

rodney.richard@hallandwilcox.com.au

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Current Practice

Rodney advises on stamp duties, property taxes and other state taxation issues in all Australian States and Territories.

Rodney has experience across a broad range of transactions, including:

mergers, acquisitions and divestments;
corporate reorganisations;
business restructuring;
asset acquisitions and disposals;
infrastructure projects;
structured and asset financing
capital raisings; and
debt funding and restructuring.

Rodney provides strategic stamp duty planning and structuring advice and implementation support for transactions and projects. He also undertakes regulatory approvals, due diligence reviews, and dispute resolution with the revenue authorities.

Experience

Rodney has over 20 years experience acting for a broad range of international and Australian companies as well as professional services firms and high net worth individuals. His clients have included major international and national groups in the banking, insurance, financial services, property, energy, pharmaceutics, transport and manufacturing sectors.

Some of Rodney’s recent transactions include advising:

energy and utilities groups on the acquisition, financing and divestment of power generation and transmission assets in Victoria,
Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia;
international and Australian corporate groups on the restructuring of entities;
international and Australian corporate groups on the reorganisation of businesses;
superannuation funds on the merger and restructure of trusts; and
industrial groups on asset securitisations and other financing structures.

Qualifications

Rodney has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. He joined Hall & Wilcox as a partner in mid 2008.

Prior to joining Hall & Wilcox, Rodney was a tax partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he established and led the Melbourne office’s stamp duty advisory practice. Rodney was previously a partner with Blake Dawson in their banking & finance and corporate and commercial groups.

Rodney is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria, a fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an associate of the Law Society of New South Wales and Chartered Secretaries Australia. Rodney is also a member of the State Taxes Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria.

Publications

Stamp duty on trust deeds – 30 days to pay ‑ 21 March 2012
SRO announces discretionary trust payroll tax amnesty until 4 November 2011 ‑ 25 October 2011
Changes to land rich duty in Victoria from 1 July 2012 ‑ 25 October 2011
Deceased estates & testamentary trusts: SRO confirms duty exemption ‑ 30 September 2011
Post-Bamford Streaming Amendments: What your trust deed needs before 30 June 2011 ‑ 21 April 2011
Trading v Capital Draft Determination ‑ 13 April 2011
ATO targets foreign private equity investors ‑ 17 November 2009
Final Policy Statement about the Taxation of Employee Share Schemes ‑ 02 July 2009
Duties Amendment Bill 2008 to close loopholes passed ‑ 26 June 2009
Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated ‑ 05 June 2009
The death of Employee Share Schemes ‑ 14 May 2009
GST liability for representatives of incapacitated entities ‑ 06 April 2009
Duties Amendment Bill changes stopped by Opposition ‑ 13 March 2009
Overview of the Duties Amendment Bill ‑ 13 March 2009
Government's response to criticism of the Bill ‑ 13 March 2009
ATO Terrorising Trust Distributions to Bucket Companies ‑ 10 March 2009
Duty on sub-sales of land: more changes ‑ 02 March 2009
Taxpayer wins Agricultural Managed Investment Scheme Case ‑ 20 February 2009

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