Rachel Fox

Rachel Fox is a Partner at Al Tamimi & Company, based in Abu Dhabi. She is an Irish qualified lawyer and chartered tax advisor with over 15 years' experience on tax matters. Her practice focuses on Tax Law.

Rachel advises international and regional clients, including large multinationals, private equity firms, investment funds, family offices and high net worth individuals on a wide range of tax issues, with a particular focus on international tax structuring, inward investment, mergers and acquisitions, IP planning and group reorganisations.

She has advised clients operating across all sectors including education, financial services, infrastructure, retail and consumer, life sciences and technology.

Her recent experience includes advising one of the largest investment firms in the Middle East on tax planning matters including group restructurings, mergers and acquisitions across the GCC region, post-merger integration and Pillar Two planning; advising a major international food group on corporate tax, VAT, customs and transfer pricing matters in the UAE and KSA; and advising a sovereign wealth fund portfolio company on the tax implications of its proposed joint venture relating to a USD 2.8 billion mixed-use real estate development.

She also advised one of the largest logistics companies in the world on tax implications arising from the introduction of corporate tax in the UAE, including the Qualifying Free Zone Person regime, transfer pricing and Pillar Two, and has advised several major international companies on redomiciling from various tax havens to the UAE.

Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner at an international law firm in Dubai where she led the Middle East tax practice, and before that she was a partner in one of the largest full-service law firms in Ireland. She holds a BA in Law and Politics and an LLB from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and was admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland in 2011 and as a Chartered Tax Advisor in Ireland in 2014. She is an officer on the IBA Taxes Committee and regularly speaks on panels on international tax matters.