Transfer Pricing in a Globalised World

Programme Overview

Acquire practical options for dealing with complex transfer pricing issues in your own or your clients’ businesses. Develop sustainable transfer pricing policies and resolve issues in your current transfer pricing arrangements.

For any business operating across different jurisdictions transfer pricing has become a major and sometimes contentious issue. Build an in-depth understanding of all the current issues and hear the views of world-leading experts in the field.

25% IFS Skillnet Funding available for eligible applicants. Contact jane.flanagan@tcd.ie for further information 

What does the programme offer you?

• A deep understanding of all the major current issues affecting transfer pricing
• Learning from the experiences of world leaders in the field, including experts from the OECD, EU Commission, Irish Revenue, and global corporations such as CRH plc
• Opportunities to share perspectives and experiences with participants from multinational entities, tax, financial and legal advisors and tax authorities
• Practical work on a range of case studies offering up-to-date examples of transfer pricing issues and options for successful resolution

Who is the programme designed for?

• CFOs, Taxation and Finance executives, and managers
• Other senior executives who need to be aware of transfer pricing issues when making strategic and operational decisions
• Tax advisors in accounting and legal firms

Programme Delivery

4 full days in-person

Modules: 

Day 1: 

• Defining the transaction
• Transfer pricing methodologies
• Application through live case studies and group discussion

Day 2: 

• A macroeconomic overview giving context to the transfer pricing landscape
• Getting the legal documentation right
• Resolving current issues in transfer pricing
• ​Developing defensible transfer pricing policies 

Day 3: 

• Recent and current topics at OECD
• Transfer pricing strategy and common pitfalls
• ​Virtual case study review (via Zoom/Teams)

Day 4: 

• Approaches to valuing 'contributions to control' (OECD Global Mobility Project)
• Corporate taxpayer viewpoint from a global MNE (CRH plc)
• US transfer pricing update
• Case study – US Focus

Programme Director: Hilary Hough

Programme Lecturers & Speakers:

Dr. Emmanuel Llinares

Senior Managing Director, Transfer Pricing Practice, NERA Economic Consultants, Paris 

Joe Duffy 

Partner Matheson Ormsby Prentice 

Isabel Verlinden 

Global Tax Strategy Leader PwC, Brussels 

Ian Dykes 

Transfer Pricing Partner PWC 

Barbara Dooley 

Irish Revenue 

Dr Raffaele Petruzzi 

Director, Transfer Pricing Center, Vienna University of Economics & Business (WU) 

Mark Schuette 

US National Transfer Pricing Leader BDO 

Anthony Crewe 

Irish Revenue, former Director Transfer Pricing, Grant Thornton 

Noel A Maher 

Tax Policy Advisor, Transfer Pricing Unit,  OECD, Paris 

Brahan Nathan 

Transfer Pricing Director, Deloittes   

Mauro Faggion 

Policy Officer, Transfer Pricing, European Commission, Brussels 

Speaker from CRH plc 

For further information please email Jane Flanagan at jane.flanagan@tcd.ie