Patrick Boone, Marc Daelman, Hugues Lamon, Serge Loumaye and Peter Opsomer will become Partners on 1 July
With effect from 1 July 2008, five directors will be appointed Partners at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Belgium.
Patrick Boone (37), Master of Laws (Ghent, 1993) will be a tax Partner in PwC’s transfer pricing group. Boone has been providing consultancy since 2001 exclusively on structuring transfer prices, attracting foreign investors via, among other things, negotiating prior agreements with the tax authorities, and documenting of intra-group transactions. For the latter activity, he also coordinates the European PwC network.
With this appointment of an additional transfer pricing Partner, PwC Belgium is making itself even more effective as a “Transfer Pricing Center of Excellence” in Europe. Besides a team of Belgian staff, this Transfer Pricing Center also has specialists from Eastern Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia. Boone has been working since 1994 for PwC. He started as a corporate tax consultant.
Marc Daelman (39), Master in Accountancy (VLEKHO, 1990) will become an audit Partner. Today, he is an auditor for national and international industrial and services companies, with a specific focus on IFRS and US GAAP reporting. He also has experience with audits and consultancy in the context of mergers, acquisitions and stock market flotations.
As a Partner, he will be responsible for the expansion in Belgium of reporting by auditors about the Sustainable Business report. In addition, he will expand the consultancy on risk analysis, as well as the organisation, planning and implementation of internal audit for companies. Daelman has been working for PwC since 1991. He started his career as an auditor.
Hugues Lamon (39), Commercial Engineer (Solvay), will become a tax Partner within the M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) department. Hugues Lamon has been working in the mergers and acquisitions field for years, and has been actively involved in large transactions, both in an “inbound” and “outbound” context, such as the sale and purchase of companies, IPOs (initial public offerings), MBOs (management buy-outs) and ‘delisting’ of companies.
Hugues Lamon qualified as a Commercial Engineer at the Solvay Business School of Management (IEC, 1991). He is a financial analyst, officially approved by the Belgian Association of Financial Analysts. He has a Masters in Financial Management from the Solvay Business School. Hugues Lamon is also one of the lecturers on the course concerning the “fiscal aspects of accountancy and the technical aspects of the tax return”.
Serge Loumaye (47), MBA in Laws and Sciences, has been working for PwC since 2001 on consultancy and strategic activities in the public sector in Belgium, besides international projects in the public water and energy sector. Before 2001, he worked for around 10 years in management consultancy about the public sector, in the studies department of Tractebel, particularly in the context of international projects for the World Bank. As a Partner within the Advisory department, he will expand the activities for the public sector.
Peter Opsomer (36), an Applied Economics graduate (UFSIA and FUNDP, 1994), will join the audit department as a Partner. Today, he is working mainly from the Ghent office. Opsomer focuses on the audit of Belgian industrial groups, both those listed and not listed on the stock market.
As a Partner, he will expand the audit activities aimed at industrial groups. He began his PwC career in 1994 as an auditor.
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The five new Partners at PwC
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