Profile
Tony has a highly regarded practice acting for public and private sector clients. He is the lead tax advisor for Buddle Findlay’s most significant corporate clients and as such is heavily involved in corporate restructurings and acquisitions, tax disputes, inbound and outbound investments and Customs and Excise duty matters.
Tony also has significant experience in tax disputes and negotiations with the Commissioner, and regularly advises the New Zealand government.
He is well known as a public speaker and has presented on a number of tax issues for the New Zealand Law Society and New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Tony is a "highly effective and responsive practitioner with sound tax knowledge."
Chambers Global
"He's very commercially focused and he's not going to come up with a solution that doesn't fit commercially with what we can do."
Chambers and Partners
“We were assisted by Tony Wilkinson and we found his work to be of a very high quality. Particularly important, given his area, were the following strengths: (i) Very clear thinking on tax issues and detailed knowledge of tax law; (ii) a strong ability to explain complex issues to non-tax practitioners; and (iii) he is very focused on risk management for us as clients, which is appreciated and essential to our adviser relationships. In summary Tony is the most knowledgeable tax practitioner I have worked with in NZ in my 12 years of private equity work.”
- Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA)
- Highly Regarded, ITR World Tax 2021
Work highlights
Advising the shareholders of National Mini Storage
on the sale of the company to Kennards Self Storage
Advising BV Investment Partners
on its strategic investment into Kami
Advising Kinetic
on its acquisition of Go-Bus
Advising Chevron
on the disposal of downstream petroleum assets to Z Energy
Advising Z Energy
on the acquisition of downstream petroleum assets from Shell
Advising Caltex Australia
on the acquisition of Gull NZ