Technical Policy Conference

Abigayil Chandra

Partner, Deloitte and Chair, BVCA Taxation Committee

Abigayil Chandra is a Partner in the Private Equity funds tax practice at Deloitte with over 18 years of tax experience. Abigayil specializes in advising fund managers on a range of issues including the structuring and ongoing operation of their fund and management entities, carried interest plans and the ongoing tax reporting and compliance obligations.

Abigayil is the Chair of the BVCA’s Personal  Tax Sub-Committee.
 

Adam Sutton

Partner, Grant Thornton

Adam Sutton is a UK valuation partner with over 20 years of experience covering restructuring, M&A, financial reporting, tax, pensions, and contentious valuation situations.

Adam has spent most of his career in London focussed on valuations in the technology, media, and telecoms sectors. More recently he spent three years leading a well-known valuation practice in Singapore, building Asian business experience across a broader range of sectors.

Adam has a particular interest in and regularly work with DB pension scheme trustees, employers, and regulators on valuation related issues impacting DB scheme covenants.

Adam has also developed expertise in, and methodologies for, valuing data.
 

Alex Conway

Director, Professional Practice and Private Clients, Crowe

Alex Conway is a chartered tax advisor and accountant specialising in professional practices and individual partners' taxation, with a particular focus on the legal sector and investment management industry.
Alex advises clients on a range of personal and partnership tax matters, looking to provide a personal service which will enable them to achieve their goals.

Areas of particular specialism include advising on carried interest, disguised investment management fees , basis period reform, international expansion and salaried members legislation.

Alex has also spent time working in industry at a large mid-market private equity firm and thus understand a client’s point of view.

Alex is a member of the APP, and part of its Up and Coming Committee, as well as being a member of the BVCA Tax Committee.  
 

Athene Blakeman

General Counsel, Oxford Science Enterprises

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Ceinwen Rees

Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

Ceinwen Rees is a tax partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She is widely recognized as a leading UK tax lawyer, combining her extensive market knowledge with legal and tax technical experience. Ceinwen advises on a broad range of complex tax and structuring matters with a particular focus on advising investment fund managers across their life cycle, from fundraising to deployment and realization.

Ceinwen has a particular focus on investment management house matters; including partnership tax issues and management incentive arrangements such as carried interest and co-invest. She also works with clients to navigate HMRC enquiries arising in this space.

Ceinwen is recognized in both Legal 500 and Chambers as a leading individual, where she is described as an “outstanding” practitioner and as someone who “breaks down concepts, explains them in an easily understandable manner and comes up with commercial practical solutions.”
 

Clare Gaskell

Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Chair, BVCA Legal Committee

Clare Gaskell advises on private M&A and public takeovers as well as equity capital markets transactions and other corporate matters, including minority and preferred equity investments, consortium transactions, restructurings and management equity plans, with a focus on private equity and other financial sponsor clients. Clare has particular experience in law and regulation applicable to UK-listed companies and handles complex cross-border transactions with international counterparties.

Clare is recognized by Chambers UK for her private equity practice. She has also been named “M&A Lawyer of the Year” and “Best in Private Equity” at Euromoney’s Women in Business Law EMEA Awards, “Transatlantic Dealmaker of the Year” by LegalWeek, and a “Hot 100: Dealmaker” by The Lawyer. Clare is Chair of the Legal Committee of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA).
 

Ed Nevens

Head of Tax, Cinven

Ed Nevens was a Tax Partner at BDO focussed on the taxation of private equity firms and their investors. Before this Ed was an Associate Partner at EY and he previously worked in-house at Apax Partners and Bridgepoint Capital.

Ed has a PhD in Pure Mathematics from Imperial College and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
He joined Cinven in 2020.
 

Elena Rowlands

Partner, Travers Smith

Elena Rowlands is a partner in our Tax Department, specialising in the taxation of private capital managers, investment funds and their investors.

She advises on all aspects of the structuring and formation of private and listed investment funds across the alternative asset classes. She also advises on the tax aspects of liquidity solutions including GP and LP-led secondary transactions.

Her clients include the full spectrum of alternative private capital managers from global multi-strategy houses to European based start-up teams. She advises them on the wide range of complex tax issues affecting their businesses. The majority of Elena's work has an international element.

Elena works closely with trade associations – she is a member of the BVCA's technical working group on carried interest, a member of the Alternative Credit Council's Tax Committee, a member of Invest Europe's Tax Committee, and a member of the Income Tax Sub-Committee of the Law Society. She is regularly involved in discussions with HMRC and HM Treasury on the enactment of complex new legislation.
 

Helen Croke

Partner, White & Case

Helen Croke is a partner in our global M&A practice based in London, focusing on Private Equity.

She specialises in UK and international private equity and M&A, including acting for institutional investors, corporates and founders. Helen is recommended by Chambers UK and The Legal 500 as a leading individual in private equity who clients say is "fantastic" with a "unique ability to articulate complicated aspects in layman's terms." She was inducted into the Legal 500 Hall of Fame in 2020 for private equity transactions of £500+ million.
 

Helena Drury

European Legal Counsel, Advent International

Helena Drury joined Advent in 2021. She is a Senior Director and serves as European Legal Counsel, based in London.
Prior to joining Advent on a permanent basis, Helena completed a 12-month secondment in Advent’s London office from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner in the corporate / private equity practice.

Helena received an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and has obtained her GDL and LPC (with distinction) from the University of Law and BPP, respectively.
 

Isobel Clarke

Director of Policy, BVCA

Isobel is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Sarah Adams. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a jobshare partnership since early 2020. They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.

Isobel has over 13 years’ experience of working on government policy, mainly at HM Treasury but also at the Ministry of Justice. She has led policy work on business rates, tax devolution and the scrutiny of tax reliefs. She was, with Sarah, deputy director for business tax strategy and then deputy director for open justice and dispute resolution.

Isobel lives in London with her family. She read French and German at the University of Cambridge, spending a year in Berlin. Before joining HM Treasury she was a research and evaluation consultant.

James McCredie

Partner, Macfarlanes

James McCredie is Head of the Tax and Reward team, advising on a broad range of tax matters, including fund establishment, investment structuring, management incentive plans, and partnership tax.
He specialises in private capital taxation, supporting clients across asset classes such as private equity, credit and real estate.

James has extensive experience helping fund managers navigate evolving tax regulations, including carried interest reforms. He also advises funds and financial services firms on tax aspects of acquisitions, disposals, investment platforms, and secondary transactions.

A specialist in partnership taxation, James works with asset managers and professional services firms on structuring and compliance as well as stake sale transactions which have been a major market feature in recent years.

Jennifer Wheater

International Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton

Jenny Wheater is a partner based in the London office and a member of the firm’s Tax Department. Her practice focuses on advising clients on the UK tax aspects of establishing and operating various types of investment funds, including private equity, debt and real estate funds, and the UK tax aspects of mergers and acquisition transactions.

Ms. Wheater is recommended by The Legal 500 UK (2025), with one client noting that she is “an absolute star.” Clients have also said that she is “extremely dedicated, brilliant and gets things done.” She is also recommended by Chambers Global (2024) and Chambers UK (2025), where she is praised for having “technical knowledge, a client-oriented mindset and a sound understanding of risk.”

A long-standing, prominent member of the London tax and investment management community, Ms. Wheater sits on the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (“BVCA”) Tax Committee and, in this capacity, has regularly been involved in discussions with HMRC and HM Treasury on behalf of the investment fund industry. She is also the lead editor of the book Global Tax Aspects of Private Fund Formation published in 2016, and is the editor of the IBA publication Business Law International. Ms. Wheater is a regular speaker on fund related tax issues. Recent examples include Invest Europe’s Fund Secondary Transactions course 2024, Informa Connect Tax and Regulatory Issues for Funds 2024 and BVCA Tax, Legal and Regulatory Conference 2023.

Ms. Wheater is admitted to practise in both England & Wales and New York.
 

Jill Hardie

Head of Tax, Patria Private Equity

Jill Hardie is head of tax for Patria's GPMS private equity business. She has been with the team since 2012 and oversees tax structuring and reporting for the GPMS private equity funds. She also provides tax transaction support to the GPMS private equity team. Prior to joining the business, Jill worked in the business tax advisory team at EY in Edinburgh. Jill is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. 

Jonathan Martin

Partner Head of Private Equity UK Audit, , KPMG, and Chair, BVCA Accounting, Reporting & Governance Committee

Jonathan Martin is a member of the Private Equity leadership team in the UK and runs the PE Audit Group where he is responsible for the audit of the funds and management company structures of a range of Houses in the LBO, mid-market and Venture sectors spanning the UK, Europe and Africa.

He currently chairs Invest Europe’s Regulatory and Valuation Committee and is a member of both the Professional Standards Committee at Invest Europe and the BVCA’s Legal and Accounting Committee. He also leads KPMG’s “PE+” program which ensures a co-ordinated approach to the audit of portfolio companies.

Jonathan has been at KPMG for 23 years, prior to his role in Private Equity he was responsible for a number of large Sarbanes Oxley and IFRS implementation projects.
 

Karen Sands

Chief Operating Officer, Federated Hermes

Karen Sands is the Chief Operating Officer of Federated Hermes Global Private Equity business. She has overall responsibility for ensuring a best-in-class organisational infrastructure for clients, investment teams and business development activities. Her role also involves growth strategy design and implementation including the planning and prioritisation of strategic initiatives.

Karen sits on the Federated Hermes Private Markets Management Committee and is a member of the private equity Senior Management Team. Karen previously worked in finance at Matrix Property Management and began her career at Equity Asset Management.

Karen is Chair of Invest Europe’s Professional Standards Committee, and she is Vice Chair of the British Venture Capital Association Accounting, Reporting & Governance Committee. She is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Karen holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Criminology and a Master of Arts in Psychoanalysis. At the Real Deals 2021 ‘The Drawdown Awards’, Karen received the accolade of ‘COO of the Year’ and was named on ‘The Drawdowns’ inaugural list of Operational Leaders in 2025.

Laura Charkin

Partner, Goodwin

Laura Charkin is a partner in Goodwin’s Tax practice and a member of the Private Investment Funds group. Laura specializes in all taxation matters affecting the private investment funds industry; she is a member of both the BVCA and Invest Europe tax committees and is recognised as a Band 1 practitioner in this area by Chambers Global and UK.

She advises fund managers and investors across a wide range of asset classes including private equity, debt, real estate, venture capital, infrastructure funds, and fund-of-funds. She has particular expertise in structuring private funds, separately managed accounts, executive incentive arrangements, the structures through which funds invest, and investment management platforms.

Laura advises on a broad range of tax issues including VAT, employment tax, capital gains tax in relation to partnerships, BEPS related tax changes and tax rules relating to carried interest and executive investments into funds. She also has considerable knowledge of international tax issues arising for investment structures with a cross-border dimension and experience with multijurisdictional fund management teams.

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2017, Laura was a partner at King & Wood Mallesons (formerly SJ Berwin).
 

Lisa Eger

Senior Legal Counsel, Hg Capital

Lisa Eger provides legal and strategic competition law advice to the firm’s investment executives with respect to M&A transactions, co-investments and Hg’s existing portfolio. Lisa also advises on foreign investment and other regulatory aspects of M&A transactions and looks after antitrust compliance management across the Hg portfolio.

Prior to joining Hg in 2020, Lisa spent nine years with international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Brussels. Lisa studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Lausanne and Cologne (with distinction) and holds a PhD in competition law. She is qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales and as a German Rechtsanwältin.
 

Lord Gavin Barwell

Lord Gavin Barwell served as Downing Street Chief of Staff from June 2017 to July 2019 during one of the most turbulent periods in British political history. As the Prime Minister’s most senior political adviser, he was intimately involved in the negotiation of Theresa May's Brexit deal, as well as the development of key domestic policies like the UK’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and foreign policy (e.g. the UK response to the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal by the Russian state).

Prior to his appointment as Chief of Staff, he was the Member of Parliament for Croydon Central from May 2010 until June 2017 and a Government Minister from October 2013 until June 2017 (initially a Whip and then Minister of State for Housing & Planning and Minister for London).

Prior to his election to Parliament, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Conservative Party and served as a local councillor in his home town of Croydon.

In October 2019, he was appointed to the House of Lords.

Taken together, these roles have given him an unparalleled insight into British politics and government from grassroots campaigning in a marginal seat through party headquarters, local government, Parliament and Ministerial office to 10 Downing Street, as well as contacts in a number of foreign governments and the EU institutions.

He now runs NorthStar, a business he co-founded which provides advice on UK and geopolitics to clients including Arcadis, AXA, Barratt Redrow, DLA Piper, GSK and PwC.

He is also a non-executive director of Clarion Housing Group, the largest housing association in the country; and a member of the Advisory Board of the Work Foundation, the leading think tank focused on improving work in the UK.

He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge with a BA in Natural Sciences.

He is 53 years old and married with three children.
 

Neel Mehta

Finance Partner, Primary Capital Partners

Neel Mehta joined Primary as Finance Partner in 2022 and is responsible for the financial management, compliance and operations of the firm.

Before joining Primary, Neel was the Chief Financial Officer of DWS Private Equity and prior to that, the Finance Director at Mayfair Equity Partners.

Neel started his career as a Teacher of Mathematics, hold a BA (Hons) in International Accounting and Finance from the University of Brighton and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
 

Owen Lysak

Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Owen Lysak founded and co-leads the Firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory practice and co-founded and co-leads the European evergreen private wealth funds practice.

Owen is widely recognized as a leading practitioner advising private funds and alternative asset managers on complex U.K. and EU financial regulatory matters and on the democratization of access by ordinary investors to private markets investments. Owen has deep experience counseling prominent private funds, asset managers and financial institutions on U.K. and EU financial market regulations and transactions, including AIFMD, MiFID II and UCITS, as well as helping asset management firms design, develop and structure investment products, including having advised on many of the leading European private markets retail funds.

His broad practice also includes advising on the regulatory aspects of M&A and restructurings within the financial sector, market abuse regulations, regulatory capital requirements and securities offering rules.

Owen is acknowledged by Legal 500 UK as a “Next Generation Partner” and Chambers UK where clients describe him as “able to distil mind-bending complexity into plain English” and “a leader in complex cross-border regulation”. He was recognized by IFLR as one of the most influential individuals in financial regulation in 2019 and as a “Rising Star” for financial services regulatory by IFLR1000. He was also named to Private Equity International’s Private Funds Management “30 Under 40 Lawyers” list in 2015 and 2017.

Owen is a regular contributor to regulatory policy debate and development, including in connection with reforms to European legislation including ELTIFs and AIFMD2, U.K. regulatory developments such as the introduction of the Long-Term Asset Fund and the U.K. Consumer Duty, the U.K’.s Patient Capital Review, as well as advising the Investment Association on issues relating to Brexit. Owen is a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Regulatory Committee.

Owen obtained an LL.B. from The London School of Economics and Political Science. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
 

Patricia Volhard

Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton

Patricia Volhard is head of the firm’s European Funds Regulatory practice. She is based in the Paris and Frankfurt offices, and also spends substantial time in the London office.

She is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, and Private Equity and Funds/Investment Management Groups. She is also a member of the firm’s core group of ESG partners. Her practice focuses on advising private funds and fund managers on structuring and setting up funds for a European investor base, as well as advising on European financial regulatory aspects for fund managers and corporates, including on SFDR, CSRD, CSDDD and other ESG-related regulation.

Ms.Volhard is one of Europe’s leading private funds regulatory lawyers and has played a prominent role in the ongoing development of the area. She is Chair of Invest Europe’s Financial Services/Regulatory Working Group, a member of its SFDR working group, and former Chair of its Tax, Legal & Regulatory Committee.

She is also a member of the Investment Management Consultative Working Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). In Germany, she is a member of the Board of the BVK, and heads its Legal Committee. In the UK, she is a member of the regulatory committee of the BVCA.
 

Paul Ellison

Partner, Clifford Chance

Paul Ellison specialises in advising on UK financial services regulatory matters. He advises a broad client base on a wide range of matters including the regulation of private funds, providing advice on structuring, the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions, FCA authorisations and variations of permission, the ongoing compliance obligations of FCA authorised firms and assisting firms with their response to FCA enquiries.

Paul has recently been advising on the impact of changes to EU and international fund marketing rules for private fund managers, the potential impact of AIFMD 2 and UK regulatory divergence on the market and the impact of key ESG disclosure legislation on fund managers and other industry participants, including the EU's SFDR and the UK's SDR proposals. Paul also participates on industry bodies, including the BVCA regulatory committee.

Paul is listed as a Leading Individual in Chambers UK for Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory.
 

Richard McGuire

Private Equity Funds Leader, PwC

Richard McGuire is a partner within PwC’s Asset Management audit practice and has more than twenty five years’ experience working with a number of traditional and alternative asset managers. He is the lead audit partner for a number of those managers and their fund products, both listed companies and private limited partnerships. He also has experience of working with private equity houses on reviewing carried interest models, advising on the accounting implications of Limited Partnership Agreements, controls reporting, track record assurance and as reporting accountants for IPOs.

Aside from a secondment to PwC’s Boston office, Richard has spent the majority of his working career in London, but works closely with colleagues in the US, Ireland and Luxembourg on global clients. Richard is also a member of the BVCA Accounting, Reporting and Governance Committee. Richard is a qualified chartered accountant and has a first class degree in Mathematics from the University of Bristol.

Rikesh Parmar

Head of Fund Accounts and Administration, Cinven

Rikesh Parmar is the Head of Fund Accounts & Administration at Cinven, responsible for accounting and reporting to Cinven’s investors. He is also a member of the BVCA’s Accounting, Reporting & Governance Committee.

Prior to joining Cinven, Rikesh worked in the Finance function at Quadriga Capital. He began his career at Doughty Hanson, working in the Finance & Fund Reporting group.

Rikesh is a CIMA-qualified Accountant and holds a BSc in Mathematics and Management from King’s College London.
He joined Cinven in 2010.
 

Sarah Adams

Director of Policy, BVCA

Sarah Adams is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Isobel Clarke. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a jobshare partnership since early 2020. They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.

Sarah has over a decade of experience making policy in the centre of government, mainly at HM Treasury. She has led on policy areas across tax, spending and financial services, including pensions tax, venture capital and insurance markets. With Isobel, she has been deputy director for business tax strategy at HM Treasury, and deputy director for open justice and dispute resolution at the Ministry of Justice.

Sarah lives in London with her family. She studied economics at the University of Cambridge and worked on global health economics before joining the civil service.

Sarah-Jane Denton

Director, Operational Risk & Environment, Travers Smith

Sarah-Jane Denton is a Director of our Operational Risk and Environment team.

Sarah-Jane Denton has many years of experience advising on a broad range of environmental topics both in support of transactions and in a compliance context. In recent years, she has particularly focused on advising both corporates and financial sector firms including a number of asset manager clients on UK and EU ESG regulation, having particular expertise in climate and sustainability reporting regimes and their impacts on UK and international businesses. Her practice extends to corporate governance, human rights, supply chain risk and related social issues under the ESG umbrella.

Sarah-Jane also has expertise in the more traditional environmental sphere including consenting, contamination, chemicals, health & safety and product regulation. In addition, Sarah-Jane has worked extensively on energy and infrastructure matters, for both renewable and innovative energy solutions providers and traditional, highly regulated utilities.
 

Stuart Clowser

Partner, RSM

Stuart Clowser is RSM UK’s head of private equity, leading RSM’s cross disciplinary private equity team. Stuart supports clients across the private equity market across funds, transactions and portfolio companies with audit, tax and consulting.

He works closely with founding partners and CFOs of private equity funds, supporting them through the fund lifecycle, including fundraising, deployment of capital, implementation of investment thesis and realisation. Stuart has significant experience in valuation, fund structures and the regulatory environment they operate in.

He is a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCAs) Accounting Committee. Stuart is used to working with deal teams and private equity backed businesses, working with their local management teams to deliver a coordinating portfolio of solutions to support the transaction, post deal implementation, optimisation and preparation for exit phases.

'I take real satisfaction of helping people succeed, whether that is my clients or developing our enthusiastic talented people at RSM and those specialists in our private equity team.'

Stuart trained as an auditor and started his career working with portfolio companies and owner manager businesses before specialising in fund audit and building RSM’s fund audit team. He has significant experience in financial reporting including IFRS, FRS 102 and FRS 101 accounting standards, plus the IPEV guidelines.

Stuart took a sabbatical during 2022 and spent 12 months with his young family in the French Alps embracing the outdoor lifestyle and introducing his children to his passions of snowboarding, cycling and the local community.
 

Tim Lewis

Partner, Financial Services & Markets, Travers Smith, and Chair, BVCA Regulatory Committee

Tim Lewis specialises in financial services law and regulation. He acts for a wide variety of retail and wholesale financial services institutions. His clients include alternative asset managers, traditional asset managers, trading venues, payment systems operators, payment institutions, banks, brokers, and investors.

Tim is Chair of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Regulatory Committee. He is a member of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association's Financial Services/Regulatory Working Group.
 

Tim Spence

Partner and CFO, Graphite Capital

Tim Spence is a member of Graphite’s Board. He joined Graphite Capital in 2005 and is responsible for the finance team and regulatory compliance. He also provides support to the Investor Relations function.

Previously he spent eight years in Audit & Assurance at Deloitte. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte and holds a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University. He has been a member of various BVCA technical committees since 2009.
 

Veronica Roberts

Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Veronica Roberts is an EU/UK competition law expert (qualified in the UK and Belgium) and heads our UK competition, regulation and trade practice. In addition, Veronica leads our global Foreign Direct Investment group and is co-lead of the Global TMT Sector team.

Veronica has over two decades of experience working proactively with clients to help them secure merger clearances for acquisitions and joint ventures in the UK, EU and worldwide. She also helps clients to deal effectively with competition and regulatory investigations. Veronica also leads our global Foreign Direct Investment group and has significant experience advising on the applicability of FDI regimes.

Veronica advises clients in a wide range of sectors, with a focus currently on telecoms, media, leisure and consumer products. She has extensive experience of working with the CMA, Ofcom, Ofgem, BEIS and the European Commission.

Veronica is consistently commended for her pragmatic and commercial advice in the major legal directories, including most recently in Legal 500 UK 2023 as "excellent, gives you confidence you are in safe hands, won’t sit on the fence; understands and appreciates the commercial perspective and will try to come up with a solution" and in 2022 as “accessible, knowledgeable, pragmatic and very client friendly. One of the more user-friendly partners in the City and great to partner with on large complex deals“.

She is also a recommended lawyer in Who’s Who Legal for both Competition and Foreign Investment Review, a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer, and was ranked in the top 5 EMEA Antitrust Lawyers in MergerLinks 2021 Dealmaker league tables.
 

Yasir Aziz

Partner, Investment Management & Private Equity, Deloitte

Yasir Aziz is a Partner in the Investment Management & Private Equity practice in London. He has over 14 years’ experience in financial services providing both advisory and assurance services, focusing on private equity clients. Yasir has also worked in New York within the Deloitte US firm where he served on a number of large fund audits. Yasir has wide experience in financial reporting in UK, US and International standards.

Yasir specialises in the audit of private equity funds and corporates, including providing regulatory reviews and controls assurance engagements within the industry.

Yasir is Deloitte's representative on the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Legal and Accounting Committee, a role which gives him great insight into the evolving landscape of technical matters in relation to Private Equity.