Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United Kingdom
Chris Adams
Deloitte
180 Strand
London WC2R 1BL
UK
Tel: (44) 20 7007 3763; (44) 7831 548106 (mobile)
Fax: (44) 20 7007 3464
Email: cdadams@deloitte.co.uk
Website: www.deloitte.co.uk
Chris Adams is an international tax partner based in London. He is the national director
of Deloitte’s transfer-pricing practice in the UK with his main concentration in global
and pan-European transfer pricing, primarily for US and European MNCs. Chris also
has global responsibility within the Deloitte international tax service line for crossborder
idea generation and dissemination and overall international tax knowledge.
Mr Adams has more than 20 years of international tax experience covering the gamut of
international and UK corporate tax issues. Over the last 10 years he has specialized in
transfer pricing and is credited with founding Arthur Andersen’s UK and European
transfer-pricing practices. With a strong background in cross-border tax planning, Chris
has focused his transfer-pricing work in this area. His experience covers a wide range of
industries, including extensive work in the technology, media and telecom sectors.
After gaining a doctorate at Cambridge University, Chris spent three years with the
Inland Revenue before joining a large accounting firm in 1984. He became a partner in
1991 and joined Deloitte in 2002. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants.
Chris is a frequent speaker at conferences focusing on international tax planning issues
and transfer pricing. He is author of Global Transfer Pricing: Principles and Practice
(LexisNexis, 2003) and contributes the annual chapters on transfer pricing to Simons
Taxes and Tolleys Tax Planning.
He served for several years as a member of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation’s
International Taxes Committee and is a member of the OECD BIAC Task Force on
Transfer Pricing and Stock Options.
Chris is listed in the Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers and the Guide to the World’s
Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers surveys conducted by Legal Media Group and as a
leading UK tax adviser in the International Tax Review survey.
224 Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers