Ari Schachna

Profile

Ari Schachna is a Partner of HWL Ebsworth and provides our national clients with expert advice and tailored support in all areas of taxation and the taxation implications for major business transactions, particularly the acquisition and disposal of businesses and property. He offers technical expertise in all areas of taxation planning and structuring including, Capital Gains and Income Tax, corporate taxation, Australian Taxation Office audits and the GST, State taxes, succession and estate planning, and property sales and purchases. He also advises as to the effective utilisation of structures including discretionary unit and hybrid trusts, corporate entities, joint ventures and partnerships.

Projects on which Ari has been engaged include: 

• Advising on the commercial and taxation aspects in the disposal of a significant interest in a publicly listed company
• Providing detailed and extensive taxation advice to a number of accounting and legal firms in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland
• The provision of ongoing taxation advice to a number of large private and publicly listed companies
• Advising and negotiating the settlement of a major taxation audit
• Significant restructure of a major property trust
• Advising on a multi-jurisdictional property transaction, including technical taxation and stamp duty
• The preparation of wills, estate planning and testamentary trusts for a number of high wealth individuals.