Catherine Dean

Executive summary

Catherine is a Partner in BDO's Tax team in Sydney. Her key focus is providing merger and acquisition (M&A) transactional, advisory, and tax compliance services, particularly to clients in the natural resources and renewables sectors.

Catherine also has experience in the strategic management of tax disputes, including client risk reviews and audits with the ATO.

She is passionate about ESG issues as they relate to tax, including designing the proposed National Food Waste Tax Incentive.

Catherine has over 20 years’ experience advising on corporate tax matters with global consulting firms.

Expertise

• M&A advisory
• Corporate tax compliance and advisory services
• International tax
• ATO reviews and disputes

Qualifications and affiliations

• Master of Laws (Taxation)
• Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Business (Finance)
• Solicitor, Supreme Court of New South Wales
• Registered Tax Agent and Chartered Tax Adviser, The Tax Institute 
• Fellow, CA ANZ

Professional engagements and activities

• Representing The Tax Institute on the ATO's Large Business and International Working Group Committee
• Regular presenter at industry seminars (including for the Tax Institute) on corporate tax issues
• Thought leadership, including obtaining a precedent industry ruling on the taxation of financial arrangements (TOFA) and royalties in 2021
• Committee Member, AusIMM Women in Mining Network New South Wales, June 2016 to current
• New South Wales Tax Forum Committee Member, The Tax Institute, January 2012 to current
• Director, The Groundswell Foundation, March 2022 to current.