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Ton Smit (1965) is a tax lawyer, who graduated at University of Groningen. He started his career in the general tax practice of Deloitte & Touche where he later specialised in international tax. In 1995 he switched to Arthur Andersen where he further specialised on international tax - amongst his clients were mainly large US and UK corporations - but also started to develop his interest for financial products. Over the years with Andersen he was involved with and initiated various structured finance and corporate finance projects, among which IPO’s, the development and establishment of investment funds, cross border leases, enhanced tax sparing structures and asset backed securitisations, etc. Ton is furthermore experienced in cross border mergers and acquisitions, giving fiscal support to large scale real estate projects, providing tax training. He founded TCI in 2000. |
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Edwin Veele (1969) is a tax lawyer, who graduated at Leiden University. He started his career with Deloitte & Touche in the international tax practice. In early 1997 he switched to Staal Bankiers, a Dutch based bank, where he not only initiated financial products but also advised the corporate and individual clients of the bank. After Staal Bankiers, late 1998, he joined Arthur Andersen, where he practiced in all fields of corporate tax mainly for US and UK clients, with emphasis on reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions and financial services. Within Andersen, he was a member of the M&A group. Edwin has a broad experience in advising on and supporting (cross border) reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, providing due diligence investigations, advising on and developing financial products and structures and supporting foreign investors in setting up business in The Netherlands or other EU countries. He joined TCI in 2001. |
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Erik Jansen (1968) completed his study business economics in 1995 and tax economics in 1998 at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Erik started his career as tax adviser at Ernst & Young Tax advisors. Subsequently, he worked at Mazars Tax advisors in the corporate tax advice practise. He has extended experience in optimizing international group structures from a tax point of view, mergers and acquisitions, negotiations with tax authorities and litigation, amongst others before the Dutch Supreme Court. Following his interest in European Law, Erik recently finished a Top master European Tax Law study at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Since 1 July 2006 Erik works as tax adviser at TCI. His hobies are amongst others cycling and mountaineering. In this respect he recently reached the summit of Mount Mc Kinley (Alaska, USA). |
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Anita Liu is graduated as a bachelor at the HEAO in The Hague in the major studies business economics and fiscal economics. After a few years working in the financial service branch, she continued her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax advisors with the international corporate tax return team. Anita works as a junior tax advisor with TCI since March 2006, who is also responsible for the (corporate) tax return practice. At the moment Anita is studying the master study fiscal economics at the University of Amsterdam. |
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Wendy Berkhout has been working as a management assistant/officemanager since 1989, amongst twelve years in various functions at Ordina. During this period, she also completed the studies NIMA A and B (marketing) and NGPR A (public relations) as well as Graphic Design at the Multimedia Institute in Eindhoven. Since April 2007, Wendy is responsible for Marketing & Comunications at TCI. |
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Marija van Oers-Maksimovic is employed as an Office Manager. She has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a secretary and later on as a consultant at the Customs Group and Financial Management Solutions. In this respect she has knowledge of indirect taxes, VAT and Customs. Furthermore, she has also gathered financial knowledge. She is responsible for the back office as well as for the infractructure at the office and supports the tax practice as a para-legal. |