Leslie Prescott-Haar - Partner

email - Leslie.prescotthaar@nuwaru.com
mobile - (+64) 0274 516 646

​Leslie is responsible for the Australia and New Zealand transfer pricing practice of Nuwaru.  

She has over 25 years of specialised transfer pricing experience and expertise based in Australia and New Zealand, working with the world’s and this region’s major multi-national groups, and a further 10 years of corporate taxation experience in Big 4 practices specializing in mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies and reorganizations based in the United States (New York City and Chicago).  

Leslie has been operating TP EQuilibrium | AustralAsia LP (formerly, Ceteris New Zealand) since early 2010. TPEQ has been recognised as a top tier TP firm in Australia and New Zealand for the last 7 years (International Tax Review’s World Transfer Pricing 2015 to 2021).  Prior to this, Leslie commenced the previous market-leading transfer pricing practice of Ernst & Young New Zealand, and served as a Partner and the National Leader of the practice for a number of years.
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Sector experience:

• Property development and other property-based businesses
  • Residential property development
  • Forestry and downstream businesses
  • Various agricultural and related businesses
  • Carbon credit trading
• Banking and finance (wholesale and retail banking, investment banking, mutual funds/funds management, brokerage, asset management, global trading, etc.)
• Credit card companies
• Insurance (property, casualty, life, reinsurance)
• Liquor, beer and wine (production, bottling, distribution and brand management)
• OTC, pharmaceutical, healthcare devices and cosmetic products
• Beverages, food, vitamins/health products, etc.
• Chemicals, various energy segments, metals, and mining (exploration, production, distribution, financing, etc. as well as key suppliers to these industries)
• Information technology (hardware, software, services, data analytics and e-commerce)
• Retail (various segments)
• Major household appliances
• Business and consumer electronics
• Motor vehicles and automotive parts (production and distribution)
• Industrial production equipment
• Advertising, professional and other services, etc.
• Telecommunications
• Motion pictures (production and distribution)
• Magazine publication and distribution
  
  

Key achievements:

• Lead advisor in relation to the first bilateral APAs executed in respect of New Zealand-based multinational organisations with Australia, Japan and the United States.  
• Provider of transfer pricing advisory services to various major multinationals in Australia and NZ with long term client relationships
• World Transfer Pricing, 2015 to 2021 (7-years running)
• ITR Asia Tax Awards 2020
• Development, implementation and maintenance of sustainable transfer pricing policies / mechanisms for numerous clients which have been accepted and highly rated in reviews and audits around the world over the long term

Key assignments:

• Taxation and supply chain planning engagements
• Documentation exercises (global, regional and local documentation)
• Tax authority reviews, investigations and audit defence
• Competent authority negotiations
• Independent second opinions and expert advice
• Advance pricing arrangements and similar negotiations
•  Business restructuring transactions and due diligence

Professional associated memberships:

Previously, Chartered Accountant – Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
Currently, International Fiscal Association

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