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Sam Lo Ricco - Partner
email - sam.loricco@nuwaru.com
mobile - +61 400 520 382 What Sam brings to clients
Clients benefit from Sam’s extensive Australian and international tax experience and his ability to formulate and execute strategies to manage risk and improve shareholder returns. By combining his technical and analytical skills with excellent commercial judgement Sam successfully executes complex, cross border initiatives. Sam adds value in being able to understand and manage people. He has been effective in developing high performing teams that are curious, progressive in their thinking and who know how to challenge the status quo and win. He has built, managed and mentored large, remote and culturally diverse teams in various global and regional roles. His broader experience in finance, treasury and M&A enable Sam to operate cross functionally on projects, bringing together individual functional specialists to ensure that each understand and support each other in delivering the broader outcome. |
Sam has had significant experience in working with and reporting to Boards on tax strategies and risk management and has a unique insight as to the Directors mindset when it comes to managing tax issues. As Board’s increasingly take an interest in tax issues, clients and their Boards appreciate the clarity of thought Sam brings to Board reporting.
History
Sam has over 25 years of tax experience in both professional and commercial roles.
Out of University, Sam joined Deloitte and spent 15 years working in their Corporate and International Tax group, including 4 years on secondment to the Asia Pacific office of Deloitte where he spent time working in South East Asia.
Sam has spent the past 10 years with ASX/NZX listed Fletcher Building Limited as their Global Head of Tax, with responsibility for managing the groups tax affairs in over 20 countries, including the US, UK and China.
Sam was also director of Fletcher Building Limited’s Australia and International Holding companies.
Expertise
Typical clients
Sam works with medium and large private, multinational and ASX listed clients in a range of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, construction, engineering, technology, and service industries.
Sam also works with high growth companies seeking to expand internationally.
Qualifications
Sam is a Chartered Accountant ANZ, a Solicitor of the NSW Supreme Court, a Chartered Tax Adviser and a Justice of the Peace in NSW.
What I do when not in suit
Sam enjoys the outdoors and spends most of his spare time attending to his property, his wife’s horses and in taking care of his local bushland.
Sam is a volunteer with the NSW Rural Fire Service and is never too far from a local hazardreduction and can often be seen martialling traffic at a community event and talking to people about risk of bushfires and the importance of having a bushfire survival plan.
Having overcome his fear of snakes since moving to the bush, Sam has an ambition of becoming a snake handler, one day soon anyway.
History
Sam has over 25 years of tax experience in both professional and commercial roles.
Out of University, Sam joined Deloitte and spent 15 years working in their Corporate and International Tax group, including 4 years on secondment to the Asia Pacific office of Deloitte where he spent time working in South East Asia.
Sam has spent the past 10 years with ASX/NZX listed Fletcher Building Limited as their Global Head of Tax, with responsibility for managing the groups tax affairs in over 20 countries, including the US, UK and China.
Sam was also director of Fletcher Building Limited’s Australia and International Holding companies.
Expertise
- Corporate and international tax advisory
- Tax compliance review (income tax, GST, FBT)
- Corporate and transaction structuring
- Inbound and outbound investment (particularly investment in Asia)
- Tax function management/ virtual tax director
- Tax risk management & governance frameworks
- Board experience and reporting
- Tax audit and dispute management
- Trans-Tasman issues and New Zealand taxation
Typical clients
Sam works with medium and large private, multinational and ASX listed clients in a range of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, construction, engineering, technology, and service industries.
Sam also works with high growth companies seeking to expand internationally.
Qualifications
Sam is a Chartered Accountant ANZ, a Solicitor of the NSW Supreme Court, a Chartered Tax Adviser and a Justice of the Peace in NSW.
What I do when not in suit
Sam enjoys the outdoors and spends most of his spare time attending to his property, his wife’s horses and in taking care of his local bushland.
Sam is a volunteer with the NSW Rural Fire Service and is never too far from a local hazardreduction and can often be seen martialling traffic at a community event and talking to people about risk of bushfires and the importance of having a bushfire survival plan.
Having overcome his fear of snakes since moving to the bush, Sam has an ambition of becoming a snake handler, one day soon anyway.